Re: [ECOLOG-L] Advice needed: Nearest Neighbor Analysis of infected trees

2012-10-11 Thread Giorgio Vacchiano
Hello, apart from R packages, I sometimes used Ned Levine's Crimestat to carry out spatial analyses of point patterns. You might be interested in tests such as Ripley's (clumped versus random distribution of points), or global or local autocorrelation indices (sparial association between positive

[ECOLOG-L] Advice needed: Nearest Neighbor Analysis of infected trees

2012-10-10 Thread Darren Reidy
Dear Ecolog, I am currently co-supervising an Honors Wildlife Biology student who is mapping the prevalence and distribution of Chestnut Bleeding Canker disease on horse chestnut trees in Killarney National Park, Ireland. This is a relatively new field of ecology for me so I am interested in