New tests of spatial segregation based on nearest neighbour contingency tables
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DOI10.1111/J.1467-9469.2009.00667.XzbMATH Open1223.62094arXiv0808.1409OpenAlexW2061204910MaRDI QIDQ3077786FDOQ3077786
Authors: Elvan Ceyhan 
Publication date: 22 February 2011
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The spatial clustering of points from two or more classes (or species) has important implications in many fields and may cause the spatial patterns of segregation and association, which are two major types of spatial interaction between the classes. The null patterns we consider are random labeling (RL) and complete spatial randomness (CSR) of points from two or more classes, which is called CSR independence. The segregation and association patterns can be studied using a nearest neighbor contingency table (NNCT) which is constructed using the frequencies of nearest neighbor (NN) types in a contingency table. Among NNCT-tests Pielou's test is liberal the null pattern but Dixon's test has the desired significance level under the RL pattern. We propose three new multivariate clustering tests based on NNCTs. We compare the finite sample performance of these new tests with Pielou's and Dixon's tests and Cuzick & Edward's k-NN tests in terms of empirical size under the null cases and empirical power under various segregation and association alternatives and provide guidelines for using the tests in practice. We demonstrate that the newly proposed NNCT-tests perform relatively well compared to their competitors and illustrate the tests using three example data sets. Furthermore, we compare the NNCT-tests with the second-order methods using these examples.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1409
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