topic How to obtain descriptive statistics for neighboring polygons in ArcGIS GeoStatistical Analyst Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419773#M878 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am doing a county-level analysis and I would like to use ArcMap to create some variables that describe characteristics of neighboring counties.&nbsp; For example, I would like to know what the mean Percent Black is for each county???s neighboring counties.&nbsp; So, if a "County A" has 3 bordering counties, 1 with 2% Black, 1 with 10% Black and 1 with 4% Black, then it would be assigned a value of 5.34 on the variable.&nbsp; I would also like to create a variable that includes the highest percent Black of any bordering county.&nbsp; So, in the previous example, "County A" would be assigned a value of 10.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know how to accomplishing this in Arc Map?&nbsp; I???ve been looking over the Geostatistical Analyst tools but the closest thing I could find was the Voronoi maps option but it looks like that tool completely changes your polygons before providing descriptive statistics.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:37:26 GMT JenniferOwens 2012-04-01T18:37:26Z How to obtain descriptive statistics for neighboring polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419773#M878 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am doing a county-level analysis and I would like to use ArcMap to create some variables that describe characteristics of neighboring counties.&nbsp; For example, I would like to know what the mean Percent Black is for each county???s neighboring counties.&nbsp; So, if a "County A" has 3 bordering counties, 1 with 2% Black, 1 with 10% Black and 1 with 4% Black, then it would be assigned a value of 5.34 on the variable.&nbsp; I would also like to create a variable that includes the highest percent Black of any bordering county.&nbsp; So, in the previous example, "County A" would be assigned a value of 10.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Does anyone know how to accomplishing this in Arc Map?&nbsp; I???ve been looking over the Geostatistical Analyst tools but the closest thing I could find was the Voronoi maps option but it looks like that tool completely changes your polygons before providing descriptive statistics.&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:37:26 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419773#M878 JenniferOwens 2012-04-01T18:37:26Z Re: How to obtain descriptive statistics for neighboring polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419774#M879 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>We don't have anything like that in Geostatistical Analyst.&nbsp; You might have more luck on the Geoprocessing forum, or maybe the ArcGIS Desktop - General forum.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:14:57 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419774#M879 EricKrause 2012-04-03T15:14:57Z Re: How to obtain descriptive statistics for neighboring polygons https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419775#M880 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Please check Spatial Statistics forum too.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thank you.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:25:07 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-geostatistical-analyst-questions/how-to-obtain-descriptive-statistics-for/m-p/419775#M880 TarunJaiswal 2012-04-03T15:25:07Z