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	Ripley K Function	Geary's C Spatial Autocorrelation
สาขาวิชา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
ปีกำเนิด	1977	1954
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Brian Ripley	Roy C. Geary
ประเภท	Spatial point pattern test	Global spatial autocorrelation statistic
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Ripley, B. D. (1977). Modelling spatial patterns. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 39(2), 172–212.	Geary, R. C. (1954). The contiguity ratio and statistical mapping. The Incorporated Statistician, 5(3), 115–146.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Ripley's K Function, Second-Order Intensity Function, K(d) Function, Ripley K Fonksiyonu	Geary contiguity ratio, Geary's contiguity ratio, global spatial autocorrelation, Geary C mekânsal otokorelasyon
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	2	2
สรุป	The Ripley K function, introduced by Brian Ripley in 1977, is a second-order summary statistic for spatial point patterns. It measures how the number of points within a given distance d of a typical point compares to what would be expected under complete spatial randomness (CSR). Widely used in ecology, epidemiology, criminology, and geography, the K function reveals whether events cluster, disperse, or distribute randomly across a study area at multiple spatial scales simultaneously.	Geary's C is a global measure of spatial autocorrelation — whether nearby locations tend to have similar values — introduced by Roy Geary in 1954. Unlike Moran's I, which is built on the covariation of values around the mean, Geary's C is built on the squared differences between neighbouring values, making it more sensitive to local, short-range variation. Values below 1 indicate positive spatial autocorrelation (similar neighbours), near 1 indicate randomness, and above 1 indicate negative autocorrelation.