“…FDA is an effective technique to capture trend and variation modes in functional data (i.e. data providing information about curves, surfaces or anything else varying over a continuum), and has been widely applied in many scientific fields, including behavioural science (Rossi, Wang, and Ramsay 2002), medical research (Dong et al 2018), environmental science (Fraiman et al 2014;Lv, Fowler, and Jing 2019), etc. Furthermore, by taking Ripley's K-function analysis as an example, we also demonstrate how to apply the acquired DI values to adjust ED and correct the biased results of ED-based spatial analysis.…”