An introduction to spatial point pattern analysis or just a few (of many) things that could be done with mapped data

Abstract

An introduction to spatial point pattern analysis or just a few (of many) things that could be done with mapped data. The most frequent analysis of a spatial point pattern is a test of complete spatial randomness. As randomness is more of an exception than the
rule in the natural world it would be usually followed by modelling the generating spatial process. Different hypothesis can be tested for marked  patterns  regarding  the  spatial  dependence  between  marks:  independence,  random  labelling,  correlation,  gradients  in  the  value  of marks, etc.