topic why we need the average nearest neighbor analysis before the hot spot map in Spatial Statistics Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/why-we-need-the-average-nearest-neighbor-analysis/m-p/79182#M325 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>&nbsp;If we run the Hot Spot analysis only and the results showed hot and cold spots, </SPAN><SPAN>does </SPAN><SPAN>that mean that the points are clustered without doing the nearest neighbor analysis?</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:14:48 GMT YasserHassan 2017-02-09T19:14:48Z why we need the average nearest neighbor analysis before the hot spot map https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/why-we-need-the-average-nearest-neighbor-analysis/m-p/79182#M325 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN>&nbsp;If we run the Hot Spot analysis only and the results showed hot and cold spots, </SPAN><SPAN>does </SPAN><SPAN>that mean that the points are clustered without doing the nearest neighbor analysis?</SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:14:48 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/why-we-need-the-average-nearest-neighbor-analysis/m-p/79182#M325 YasserHassan 2017-02-09T19:14:48Z Re: why we need the average nearest neighbor analysis before the hot spot map https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/why-we-need-the-average-nearest-neighbor-analysis/m-p/79183#M326 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Don't interchange nearest neighbor with hot spot.&nbsp; The former is a statistical test which assesses statistically whether the perceived distribution is statistically significant... the latter provides no such measure.&nbsp; In short, don't believe your eyes since what you see may be purely by chance</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:20:51 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/why-we-need-the-average-nearest-neighbor-analysis/m-p/79183#M326 DanPatterson_Retired 2017-02-09T19:20:51Z