Calculating spatial correlation between features from two separate layers in QGIS

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I am trying to determine whether the presence of large numbers of active duty military troops in an area is spatially correlated with higher/lower levels of violent crime. That is, are the areas surrounding large military bases more/less violent, on average, than areas that are not near military bases?

I am working with the following two datasets:

(1) a set of point data of military bases in the continental US & their corresponding troop levels:



(2) a set of nationwide data on rates of violent crime by town/city:



My questions are:

• What statistical techniques could I use for this sort of question?
• Are there any tools built-in to QGIS (or available as plugins) that can do this?
• If there is nothing like this in QGIS, are there any Python libraries that can perform this sort of analysis?

I am new to GIS work, and my understanding of statistics is somewhat basic, so I am struggling to find the tools that I would need to do this. Any type of guidance on this would be helpful, even if it is just pointing me to some readings on concepts that might be helpful here. Thanks for your time.



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