Pattern Analysis

The Pattern analysis operation is a tool to obtain information on the spatial distribution of points in a point map. The output table contains six columns with the probabilities of finding 1 point (Prob1Pnt) within a certain distance from any point in your input map, then 2 points (Prob2Pnt), 3 points (Prob3Pnt), etc. Another column (ProbAllPnt) contains the sum of Prob1Pnt, Prob2Pnt, ..., Prob(n-1), in which n is the number of points in the input map.

By inspecting the graphs of distances against probabilities, you may recognize distribution patterns of your points like random, clustered, regular, paired etc.