This document is for educational purposes only, as a requirement for the completion of a University of Arizona course titled ENVS567: Statistical Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Data with R.

This tutorial will walk you through the steps and R code to perform a hotspot analysis using the Getis-Ord Gi method. As an example, we will look at tree equity score data for the city of Tucson, Arizona, USA. This tutorial was created by a non-expert for educational purposes only.