Summary

The tools found in the Mapping Clusters toolset are among the most valuable and frequently used tools in the Spatial Statistics Tools toolbox. The Hot Spot Analysis, Optimized Hot Spot Analysis, and Cluster and Outlier Analysis tools are used to create visualizations of hot and cold spots as well as features that can be defined as outliers from the common pattern in a dataset. The Similarity Search tool is used to find features that are either similar or dissimilar to an input feature, and the Grouping Analysis tools is used to group features that are most alike. All of these tools are valuable to many types of cluster analysis across many disciplines. In the next chapter, we'll examine how you can model various types of spatial relationships.