About Spatial Weights

To examine spatial association in your data, you first need to define how SpaceStat should define spatial relationships among objects in your geography. Exactly what is next to what? SpaceStat calculates spatial weights from the spatial relationships in the files you import. These are termed, alternatively, contiguity relationships, neighbor relationships, spatial weights, or adjacency sets.

SpaceStat can calculate several different spatial weight sets, from point and polygon data for use in spatial statistics. Once you have created spatial weights sets, SpaceStat can use them in statistics or to display neighbor relationships in the map. SpaceStat holds all of the spatial weights sets in your project in the Spatial Weights View.