dixon: Dixon's 2-type contingency table tests

Description Usage Arguments Details References

Description

Computes the Dixon's test of segregation for a bivariate pattern using the nearest neighbour contingency table.

Usage

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dixon(X, prepR = 0)

Arguments

X

Bivariate point pattern

prepR

Preparation range, eases nearest neighbour computation for huge patterns.

Details

The tests are an improvement on the Pielou's test of segregation. The test is defined only for two-type spatial pattern.

References

Philip Dixon, "Testing spatial segregation using a nearest-neighbor contingency table", Ecology, 75, p.1940-1948 (1994).


antiphon/sseg documentation built on May 10, 2019, 12:22 p.m.