I have seen many applications of ecological niche models, especially within the context of spatial epidemiology and vector-borne diseases. I was wondering can such models find an application in other domains (i.e., social science problems with point occurrence data e.g., crimes, or in disasters even) beyond geographies of species?
Dear Anwar,
ENMs can be used (and I'm sure they are used) outside the scope of ecology, but I guess they have different names in different fields. They are simple models for datasets containing some predictors and a 0/1 response variable - and it is not specific to ecology. And most of the ENMs are not spatial models sensu stricto - they are displayed in the geographic space, and one can study the spatial autocorelation of the residuals, but otherwise the models do not need spatial information to be trained.
HTH,
Ákos
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