Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Negative Kriging Weights & Estimates

2001-08-07 Thread Colin Daly
Hi Colin,    Kriging, in it's native state, does not ensure positivity of the weights or the estimates. The methodology does not 'know' that such and such a variable (eg concentrations in ppm or permeability in md) has to be positive. For the most part this is a good thing. Consider the 'pic

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Negative Kriging Weights & Estimates

2001-08-07 Thread Isobel Clark
Colin > Is my understanding of this "compensation" correct? Exactly. > Why wouldn't the weights for the furtherest samples > be calculated by subtracting the weighting of the > closer samples from 1, instead of compensating using > negative weights afterwards? I am not sure I understand your que

AI-GEOSTATS: Negative Kriging Weights & Estimates

2001-08-07 Thread Colin Badenhorst
I have recently carried out ordinary kriging for a ore reserve estimation exercise (using GSLIB), and noted that a very few of the grade estimates are negative (always a very small number e.g. 0.002 ppm). I have been able to trace this back to negative kriging weights, and would like some co

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Marrons I Statistic (Again)

2001-08-07 Thread Isobel Clark
According to Noel Cressie's book (Statistics for spatial dat, Wiley, p427) "Moran (1948) proposed a test of spatial dependence between sites... The statistic I is known as Moran's contiguity ratio; it tests for random spatial scatter of, say, black sites in black/white images ..."

AI-GEOSTATS: Marrons I Statistic (Again)

2001-08-07 Thread Yadollah Waghei
Hello AI-Geostats members I set this mail to AI-GEOSTATS , But I did not recieve any response, therefore I send it again: I saw Marrons I Statistic in GS+ Software. It is an statistic computed in each lags as follow: N(h){sum(Zi*Zj)/sum(Zi^2)} This statistics and its plot arise for me

AI-GEOSTATS: Moran's I calculation and appropriate use.

2001-08-07 Thread Raechel Waters
Dear All, I had a couple of questions regarding the calculation and use of Moran's I. Firstly, does anyone know of free software or routines that will calculate Moran's I (for user defined lags) and provide a significance value for the calculated statistic? I have played with Crimestat (thank

AI-GEOSTATS: summary: spatial stats for small data sets

2001-08-07 Thread Raechel Waters
Dear All, A sincere apology that it has taken be so long to post the responses to a query I sent earlier this year. The content of my posting and the replies I received are listed below. Thank you once again to those that responded, your input has been extremely helpful. Raechel Waters Orig

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: help on GS+ and sciencedirect

2001-08-07 Thread claudio.cocheo
Hi, > I have the 3.1 version of GS+ and everything is going ok, but when I >ask for the program to make the color maps i get these > crazy >squares and nothing related to what I want. Also the > example data that >comes with the program also gives these crazy