pointpats.j¶

pointpats.j(coordinates, support=None, distances=None, metric='euclidean', hull=None, edge_correction=None, truncate=True)[source]¶

Ripely’s J function

The so-called “spatial hazard” function, this is a function relating the F and G functions.

Parameters:

coordinatesnumpy.ndarray, (n,2): input coordinates to function
supporttuple of length 1, 2, or 3, int, or numpy.ndarray: tuple, encoding (stop,), (start, stop), or (start, stop, num) int, encoding number of equally-spaced intervals numpy.ndarray, used directly within numpy.histogram
distances: tuple of numpy.ndarray: precomputed distances to use to evaluate the j function. The first must be of shape (n,n) or (n,) and is used in the g function. the second must be of shape (n,p) or (p,) (with p possibly equal to n) used in the f function.
metric: str or callable: distance metric to use when building search tree
hull: bounding box, scipy.spatial.ConvexHull, shapely.geometry.Polygon: the hull used to construct a random sample pattern for the f function.
edge_correction: bool or str: whether or not to conduct edge correction. Not yet implemented.
truncate: bool (default: True): whether or not to truncate the results when the F function reaches one. If the F function is one but the G function is less than one, this function will return numpy.nan values.

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