The tools found in the Utilities toolset are primarily used for data conversion tasks in support of other tools found in the Spatial Statistics Tools toolbox. Tools in this toolset include Calculate Distance Band from Neighbor Count, Collect Events, and Export Feature Attributes to ASCII.

The Calculate Distance Band from Neighbor Count tool returns the minimum, maximum, and average distance to the specified nth nearest neighbor. Before doing so, it generates a list of all features in the dataset plus the distances to those features' nearest n neighbors. This tool is used as a support tool when using the Hot Spot Analysis, Cluster and Outlier Analysis, and Spatial Autocorrelation tools. The maximum distance reported by the Calculate Distance Band from Neighbor Count tool can be used as input to the Distance Band or Threshold parameter for these tools.

The Collect Events tool converts event data points to weighted point data. This tool creates an...