How to analyze whether a point feature class is significantly closer to polygons in a separate feature class than not. The point feature class is individual coyote sightings with no count as they are all at different locations. I have a layer of natural areas (polygons) and I want to see if there is a relationship. Are coyotes spending more time near natural areas? Near sports fields (another layer I have)?
I guess you could start with Near—Help | ArcGIS Desktop or Generate Near Table—Help | ArcGIS Desktop to retrieve information of the nearest feature(s) from the coyote locations.