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Getis-Ord's G*

Getis-Ord's G* is a geo-statistical measurement of the intensity of clustering of high or low values. The clustering of high values can be referred to as "hotspots" because these are areas of high activity or large (relative to the global mean) measurement values. Coldspots are clustered areas with low activity or small measurement values.

CDB_GetisOrdsG(subquery text, column_name text)

Arguments

Name Type Description
subquery text A query of the data you want to pass to the function. It must include column_name, a geometry column (usually the_geom) and an id column (usually cartodb_id)
column_name text This is the column of interest for performing this analysis on. This column should be a numeric type.
w_type (optional) text Type of weight to use when finding neighbors. Currently available options are 'knn' (default) and 'queen'. Read more about weight types in PySAL's weights documentation.
num_ngbrs (optional) integer Default: 5. If knn is chosen, this will set the number of neighbors. If knn is not chosen, any entered value will be ignored. Use NULL if not choosing knn.
permutations (optional) integer The number of permutations for calculating p-values. Default: 999
geom_col (optional) text The column where the geometry information is stored. The format must be PostGIS Geometry type (SRID 4326). Default: the_geom.
id_col (optional) text The column that has the unique row identifier.

Returns

Returns a table with the following columns.

Name Type Description
z_score numeric z-score, a measure of the intensity of clustering of high values (hotspots) or low values (coldspots). Positive values represent 'hotspots', while negative values represent 'coldspots'.
p_value numeric p-value, a measure of the significance of the intensity of clustering
p_z_sim numeric p-value based on standard normal approximation from permutations
rowid integer The original id_col that can be used to associate the outputs with the original geometry and inputs

Example Usage

The following query returns the original table augmented with the values calculated from the Getis-Ord's G* analysis.

SELECT i.*, m.z_score, m.p_value
  FROM cdb_crankshaft.CDB_GetisOrdsG('SELECT * FROM incident_reports_clustered',
                                     'num_incidents') As m
  JOIN incident_reports_clustered As i
    ON i.cartodb_id = m.rowid;