topic Cluster analysis using spatial and temporal data in Spatial Statistics Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/cluster-analysis-using-spatial-and-temporal-data/m-p/211486#M659 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am hoping to conduct a cluster analysis and my data contains:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>10 sites (isolated offshore rocks).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Three summers' worth of "counts" at each site (these are dates, varying numbers of surveys per month, usually from about May to September).&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>and 5 "groups" which are loosely defined age classes of sea lions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like to go further than what a normal hierarchical cluster analysis would do by adding a temporal variable, as well as the age class variable.&nbsp; I have seen other sea lion studies specifically use the HCA with just abundance data (monthly), and several sites, but I understand that my data is a bit more complicated.&nbsp; The results I am looking for, are groupings of sites by age class - ie: a certain age class is more likely to use certain sites over others, and whether that changes over time.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!&nbsp; Thank you!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Allison F.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:52:13 GMT GregHacker 2011-11-07T03:52:13Z Cluster analysis using spatial and temporal data https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/cluster-analysis-using-spatial-and-temporal-data/m-p/211486#M659 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Hi all,</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I am hoping to conduct a cluster analysis and my data contains:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>10 sites (isolated offshore rocks).</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Three summers' worth of "counts" at each site (these are dates, varying numbers of surveys per month, usually from about May to September).&nbsp; </SPAN><BR /><SPAN>and 5 "groups" which are loosely defined age classes of sea lions.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>I would like to go further than what a normal hierarchical cluster analysis would do by adding a temporal variable, as well as the age class variable.&nbsp; I have seen other sea lion studies specifically use the HCA with just abundance data (monthly), and several sites, but I understand that my data is a bit more complicated.&nbsp; The results I am looking for, are groupings of sites by age class - ie: a certain age class is more likely to use certain sites over others, and whether that changes over time.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!&nbsp; Thank you!</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Allison F.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:52:13 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/cluster-analysis-using-spatial-and-temporal-data/m-p/211486#M659 GregHacker 2011-11-07T03:52:13Z Re: Cluster analysis using spatial and temporal data https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/cluster-analysis-using-spatial-and-temporal-data/m-p/211487#M660 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>Allison,</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Unfortunately, you are fairly limited in your options here. The only, somewhat accessible, space/time clustering approach that I am aware of is SatScan (</SPAN><A href="http://www.satscan.org/">http://www.satscan.org/</A><SPAN>).</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:34:40 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/spatial-statistics-questions/cluster-analysis-using-spatial-and-temporal-data/m-p/211487#M660 JeffreyEvans 2011-11-08T18:34:40Z