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¹Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. snchiu@hkbu.edu.hk

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Area of Science:

Spatial statistics
Ecological modeling
Point pattern analysis

Background:

Stationarity testing is crucial for understanding spatial point patterns.
Guan's (2008) model-free statistic provides a method for stationarity assessment.
Existing methods may lack power or yield inconclusive results in certain spatial data analyses.

Purpose of the Study:

To extend Guan's stationarity testing method for spatial point patterns.
To develop a more general class of model-free statistics with improved power.
To provide robust statistical tools for analyzing spatial data.

Main Methods:

Incorporating point projections onto axes into the statistic.
Allowing flexible construction of regions for deviation analysis.
Deriving limiting distributions using Brownian sheet integrals for asymptotic critical values.

Main Results:

The new statistics demonstrate higher power compared to Guan's original test.
The extended methods provide clearer rejections of stationarity hypotheses.
Application to longleaf pine data revealed significant non-stationarity where previous tests were inconclusive.

Conclusions:

The developed statistics offer a more powerful and reliable approach to testing spatial point pattern stationarity.
These methods enhance the analysis of ecological and spatial point process data.
The findings suggest broader applicability in fields requiring spatial pattern assessment.