Re: AI-GEOSTATS: bad regression between predicted and measured

2003-10-14 Thread Russell Barbour
Dear Dr. Rocchini:

Well, my first reaction  is that R squared is not an appropriate measure for 
correlated data. Secondly, such a large area may well have an underlying trend 
which should be removed before kriging is attempted and lastly the number of 
observations seems very small if that is the only data layer available.

Sincerely

Russell Barbour Ph.D.
Research Associate in Applied Mathematics
Vector Ecology Laboratory
Yale School of Medicine
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 I've made an interpolation by IDW, Spline and ordinary kriging and
 a cross-validation for all methods.
 When I make a regression between predicted and measured values I reach an R2
 of 0.0109 (spline),  0.006 (kriging), 0.0006 (idw), namely very flat curves
 (lines).
 What could I do? I think I'm using a small number of input values (62) for
 the area that I'm considering (4000 km2).
 Thanks
 Duccio Rocchini
 
 Dr. Duccio Rocchini
 Dpt.of Env. Sci.
 University of Siena
 www.rocchini.net
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: AI-GEOSTATS: bad regression between predicted and measured

2003-10-13 Thread Isobel Clark
Duccio

There are many reasons why your interpolations may not
be working. A few of these are:

# you are beyond the range of influence of any
distance relationship, that is you have too widely
spaced sampling.

# your data may have a skewed or other non-Gaussian
distribution which makes both semi-variogram and
correlation calculations invalid

# you may have discontinuities, trends or anisotropies
which have not been factored into your model

Isobel
http://drisobelclark.ontheweb.com


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