Gerald E Bove Jr wrote:
> I only have experience running simple simulations in splus, would
> like to run a simulation which would represent both a random spatial
> pattern (~100pts.), and a spatial pattern which is clustered around
> specified points in the study area, is there a way to do this?
Yes and no. No in Splus, as such (as far as I know). Yes if you get
and fire up R, and install the spatstat package from CRAN. In
spatstat there are a number of functions which simulate clustered
spatial point processes: rMatClust, rNeymanScott, rThomas, and rmh.
I would guess that you'd find rThomas satisfactory.
Note that (a) R is free (GNU public license) and (b) its syntax is
***almost*** the same as that of Splus --- so there's not too huge an
amount for you to learn in order to use it.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
rolf@math.unb.ca
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