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Hopkins statistic: a standalone construct

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a statistic comparing nearest-neighbor distances from random points and from sampled data points to test whether data show clustering tendency.

In data mining, Hopkins statistic refers to a statistic comparing nearest-neighbor distances from random points and from sampled data points to test whether data show clustering tendency. This meaning comes from Hopkins (1954) in Annals of Botany.[1]

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Recovery means
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References

Hopkins, B., & Skellam, J. G. (1954). A New Method for determining the Type of Distribution of Plant Individuals. Annals of Botany, 18(2), 213-227. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aob.a083391

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