In today’s lab, we followed an ArcGIS tutorial that uses spatial statistics such as Average Nearest Neighbour, Spatial Autocorrelation, Calculate Distance Band from Neighbour Count, and Hot Spot Analysis in order to understand the pattern of Dengue Fever in Pennathur, Southern India.
The results of the tutorial indicate that contracting Dengue fever is not simply a product of luck or random chance. The spatial patterns we identified must be caused by certain risk factors – the next step would be to determine what these risk factors are!
Ultimately, this tutorial was a quick but effective way to practice using these tools available from ArcMap.