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19.7 Caveats 131<br />

Kest(X)<br />

X<br />

K(r)<br />

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20<br />

iso<br />

trans<br />

border<br />

theo<br />

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25<br />

For an example of caveat 3, we generate an <strong>in</strong>homogeneous Poisson pattern and apply the<br />

ord<strong>in</strong>ary K function estimator. The result appears to show cluster<strong>in</strong>g, but this is an artefact of<br />

the <strong>spatial</strong> <strong>in</strong>homogeneity.<br />

> par(mfrow = c(1, 2))<br />

> X plot(X)<br />

> plot(Kest(X))<br />

Kest(X)<br />

X<br />

K(r)<br />

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25<br />

iso<br />

trans<br />

border<br />

theo<br />

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25<br />

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