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	Ripley K Function	Geary's C Spatial Autocorrelation	การวิเคราะห์จุดร้อน Getis-Ord Gi*
สาขาวิชา	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่	การวิเคราะห์เชิงพื้นที่
ตระกูล	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test	Regression model
ปีกำเนิด	1977	1954	1992
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Brian Ripley	Roy C. Geary	Arthur Getis and J. Keith Ord
ประเภท	Spatial point pattern test	Global spatial autocorrelation statistic	Local spatial 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.	Getis, A. & Ord, J.K. (1992). The Analysis of Spatial Association by Use of Distance Statistics. Geographical Analysis, 24(3), 189–206.
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	hot spot analysis, cold spot analysis, Gi* statistic, local Gi statistic
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	2	2	4
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.	Getis-Ord Gi* is a local spatial statistic, introduced by Getis and Ord in 1992 and refined in 1995, that compares the value at each location and its neighbours against the global mean to identify statistically significant clusters of high values (hot spots) and low values (cold spots).