SAINF: A toolbox for analyzing the effect of point-like, line-like and polygon-like infrastructural features on the distribution of point-like non-infrastructural features

PREFACE This manual describes how to use SAINF: a toolbox for analyzing the effect of infrastructural features on the distribution of point-like non-infrastructural features. SAINF is part of the results obtained from the six year (1998-2003) project entitled " Spatial Information Science for Human and Social Sciences " funded by the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We express our thanks to Exceed Co. Ltd. for developing the program SAINF and to Miki Arimoto for making the data of examples. NOTICE The authors distribute SAINF only to those who agree on the following conditions. 1. The user will use SAINF for nonprofit purposes only. 2. The authors will not bear responsibility for any trouble that the user may meet in the use of SAINF. 3. When the user uses SAINF, he/she will report to the authors his/her name, affiliation, address and e-mail address. 4. When the user publishes any results obtained by using SAINF, he/she will explicitly state in the paper that he/she used SAINF. Also, he/she will send a reprint of the paper to the authors. 5. The user will report to the authors any trouble he/she meets in the use of SAINF. (The authors will remove bugs, if any, at their earliest convenience.)