NEAREST NEIGHBOUR ANALYSIS
nearest neighbour analysis: translation
a measure of how clustered or evenly spaced a distribution of points on a plane is.
Rn= 2đ √ (n/A)
wheređ- is the mean distance between nearest neighbours,n- is the number of points,A- is the area in which the distribution occurs
Values range from 2.15 for an evenly spaced distribution, through 1.0 for a random distribution to 0.0 for a highly clustered distribution.