Methods and Functions for planar point pattern analysis
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Author: Serge Rey, Hu Shao
Maintainer: pysal contributors
Requires Python: >=3.11
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Programming Language
- Python :: 3
License
- OSI Approved :: BSD License
Operating System
- OS Independent
Intended Audience
- Science/Research
Topic
- Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
pointpats: Point Pattern Analysis in PySAL
Statistical analysis of planar point patterns.
This package is part of PySAL: The Python Spatial Analysis Library.
Introduction
This pointpats package is intended to support the statistical analysis of planar point patterns.
It currently works on cartesian coordinates. Users with data in geographic coordinates need to project their data prior to using this module.
Documentation
Online documentation is available here.
Installation
Install pointpats by running:
$ pip install pointpats
Development
pointpats development is hosted on github.
As part of the PySAL project, pointpats development follows PySAL's documentation for developers and the PySAL development guidelines.
Bug reports
To search for or report bugs, please see pointpats' issues.
BibTeX Citation
@software{wei_kang_2023_7706219,
author = {Wei Kang and
Levi John Wolf and
Sergio Rey and
Hu Shao and
Mridul Seth and
Martin Fleischmann and
Sugam Srivastava and
James Gaboardi and
Giovanni Palla and
Dani Arribas-Bel and
Qiusheng Wu},
title = {pysal/pointpats: pointpats 2.3.0},
month = mar,
year = 2023,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {v2.3.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.7706219},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7706219}
}
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Dependencies:
libpysal
(>=4.10)
geopandas
(>=1.0)
matplotlib
(>=3.9)
numpy
(>=1.26)
pandas
(>=2.2)
scipy
(>=1.12)
shapely
(>=2.1)