Just an addition to the question I have asked before: one easy way would be to fit:
- a global constant (to account for the average of the points of the matrix); - a plane to account for linear terms (in the example below, it should be a plane with both negative partial derivatives with respect "x" and "y") - a quadratic form in 2 dimensions to account for "curvature" terms - maybe a cubic form Is there an easy way to perform this, or some analogous solution? Thank you Jordi ------------------------------------ Hello, I am new in this list. I have a problem and I think that the solution to this problem can be found using spatial statistics, but I do not know how. My problem is the following: I have a matrix of data, of around 6 rows and 5 columns. In reality, I have a time series, where at each point in time, I have a matrix. Usually (but not always) the maximum is at the position (1,1). Given any position (i,j), the positions to the right and below are smaller numbers. For example, 21.75 21 20.3 18.9 17.4 21.1 20.5 ... . . . 15.6 14.8 14.5 14.3 14.2 In my "world", if I have a row of data (1D, as opposed to 2D) I typically fit a parameterized function to this data (e.g., theta_1 + (theta_2 + theta_3 * x) exp(-x / theta_4), where x is the row of data). I get the numbers theta_1, ..., theta_4 and I am happy. However, now I have a matrix of data. Of course, I could fit a function for each of the rows (or columns) and report the thetas for each row (or column). But I guess that there should be a way to keep the dependencies between rows (or columns). Has anybody found a problem like this? Is there a predefined function (with several thetas) that could cope with data like this one, and is easy to calibrate? Thank you in advance Jordi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The information contained herein is confidential and is inte...{{dropped}} _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo