%0 Conference Paper %A Whigham, Peter %A de Graaf, Brandon %A Srivastava, Rashi %A Glue, Paul %D 2019 %T The importance of managing co-variate and distance biases in point-pattern clustering %U https://auckland.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/The_importance_of_managing_co-variate_and_distance_biases_in_point-pattern_clustering/9862679 %R 10.17608/k6.auckland.9862679.v1 %2 https://auckland.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/17683283 %K point pattern %K Ripley's K %K clustering %K Manhattan distance %K Geospatial Information Systems %X
Assessing social conditions for individuals often involves the evaluation of point-based patterns over some geographic region. This paper demonstrates the influence of co-variate information on observed clustering patterns and a method for assessing the role of distance metrics on clustering. The approaches are applied to assess social contagion of deliberate self-harm for a set of individuals observed over a two year period in a small community in New Zealand.
%I The University of Auckland