Andreas, I can't improve on Nicolas' suggestion, but at a guess you might also want to look at the spatstat package in R, which has defined a number of functions for this sort of analysis, and can include windows (ie country polygons) to incorporate edge correction - ie F, G and K functions.
cheers Ben On 03/01/2011, at 9:05 PM, Nicolas Ribot wrote: > On 6 December 2010 13:19, Andreas Forø Tollefsen <andrea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all. >> I have two point data sets. One point set is health observations, the other >> one is conflicts. >> What i want to do is to calculate the average distance from each health >> observation to the 10 nearest conflict points. >> I have managed to calculate the average distance, but only to all conflict >> points. >> My query: >> select "LBGE51FL".the_geom, "LBGE51FL".gid, >> AVG(ST_Distance(ST_Transform("LBGE51FL".the_geom, 954010), >> ST_Transform(acled.the_geom, 954010)))/1000 AS dist INTO LB_dist FROM >> "LBGE51FL", acled WHERE acled.gwno = 450 GROUP BY "LBGE51FL".the_geom, >> "LBGE51FL".gid; >> SRID 954010 is Eckert VI. >> Any idea on how to limit this query to the 10 nearest points? >> Thanks. >> Andreas > > Hi, > > Using a subquery to compute the distance, order by distance, limit 10, > before computing the avg distance ? > > Nicolas > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users