{"id":2594212,"date":"2025-01-14T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T18:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=2594212"},"modified":"2025-02-13T16:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:20:53","slug":"using-spatial-components-in-spatial-statistics","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/decision-support\/using-spatial-components-in-spatial-statistics","title":{"rendered":"Using Spatial Components in Spatial Statistics"},"author":5071,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37141,22771],"tags":[34151,25581],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-2594212","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decision-support","category-natural-resources","tag-modeling","tag-spatial-statistics","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"authors":[{"ID":5071,"user_firstname":"Eric","user_lastname":"Krause","nickname":"Eric Krause","user_nicename":"eric6346","display_name":"Eric Krause","user_email":"EKrause@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:42","user_description":"Eric Krause is a Product Engineer on the Spatial Statistics and Geostatistical Analyst teams.  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