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How Mean Center (Spatial Statistics) works

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Last modified January 9, 2009
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The mean center is the average x and y coordinate of all the features in the study area. It's useful for tracking changes in the distribution or for comparing the distributions of different types of features.

Potential applications


Output

The Mean Center tool creates a new point feature class where each feature represents a mean center (one for each case when a case field is specified). The x and y mean center values, case, and mean dimension field are included as output feature attributes. The following identifies the possible origin of a disease epidemic.


Mean center


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