AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive statistics

2006-05-31 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
under discussion. Meanwhile, more comments and suggestions are welcome. Best regards, Chaosheng Zhang - Original Message - From: "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:12 AM Subject: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive st

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive statistics

2006-05-27 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
ue of a "block kriging" (perhaps on the centroid?) be regarded as the estimated mean value of a study area?   Cheers,   Chaosheng   - Original Message - From: Isobel Clark To: Chaosheng Zhang Cc: ai-geostats@jrc.it Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 7:19

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive statistics

2006-05-26 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
eng - Original Message - From: Isobel Clark To: Chaosheng Zhang Cc: ai-geostats@jrc.it Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 3:59 PM Subject: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive statistics Chaosheng Some thoughts in response to your questions: 1: "Spatially corr

AI-GEOSTATS: Effects of spatial autocorrelation on descriptive statistics

2006-05-25 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
on for the calculation of mean"; 2. "In the presence of spatially correlated data, would a dispersion variance . be the proper calculation for the measure of variance?" Best regards, Chaosheng Zhang ------ Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography National Univ

Re: [ai-geostats] Re: Software for Automatic Semivariogram Estimation

2006-02-28 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Dear all,   I have the same concerns with ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst Extension (v.9.1). I would use a traditional geostatistics software package to fit the variogram models in a very traditional way, and input the parameters to ArcGIS for kriging. It seems that ArcGIS has its own

Re: [ai-geostats] Interpolation of climatic data thorugh space and time.

2005-03-03 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Hi Dave,   My concern is that the 25 locations may not be enough to capture the spatial structure of the parameter (which climatic data?) across the UK. As discussed earlier in this list, you need to perform analyses on spatial correlation. If your data is lack of spatial (auto)correl

Re: [ai-geostats] Re: F and T-test for samples drawn from the same p

2004-12-07 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
t? (2) Has anybody used the global standard errors (in geostatistics) to replace the mean standard errors (in classical statistics) in t-test? Cheers, Chaosheng - Original Message - From: "Isobel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [ai-geostats] F and T-test for samples drawn from the same p

2004-12-06 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Isobel, Good idea, and that's a step forward. Any references or is it still an idea? Cheers, Chaosheng - Original Message - From: "Isobel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "AI Geostats mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:07 PM Subject: Re: [ai-geostats] F a

Re: [ai-geostats] F and T-test for samples drawn from the same p

2004-12-06 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Title: RE: [ai-geostats] F and T-test for samples drawn from the same p Besides the discussions on the theory, I think we need a practical solution for Colin Badenhorst's initial problem (This is not his problem only). He wants to compare two sets of spatial data with several thousand s

Re: [ai-geostats] F and T-test for samples drawn from the same p

2004-12-05 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Dear all,   I'm wondering if sample size (number of samples, n) is playing a role here.   Since Colin is using Excel to analyse several thousand samples, I have checked the functions of t-tests in Excel. In the Data Analysis Tools help, a function is provided for "t-Test: Two-Sample

Re: [ai-geostats] spatial relationships

2004-09-03 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Hi all,   The interesting story given by Tim Glover is a good example of "spatial outliers". The dumptruck loads of polluted soils are too different from the neighbourhood, and thus they should be regarded as spatial outliers. When one cannot get a decent variogram after trying all

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: mixtures of populations

2004-03-11 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
- Original Message - From: "Isobel Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 11:34 PMSubject: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: mixtures of populations> AH me, the English language

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: mixtures of populations

2004-03-09 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Dear Isobel and all,   This is an interesting topic. I appreciate the ideas of the software "MIX", but have not tried it yet. If somebody finds it "really" useful, I may have a try. My main concern is that one needs to define subpopulations prior to “separate” mixed populations, b

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Re: polygon kriging

2004-02-22 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Following Pierre and Isobel's replies, an alternative way is to use a GIS. You may do the kriging (or another method)  in the ordinary way, and then overlay your interpolated surface with your polygons. Each of the irregular polygons should cover several (or tens or hundreds or more,

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Large sample size and normal distribution

2003-08-14 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
ot;zij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "ai-geostats" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:13 PM Subject: RE: AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Large sample size and normal distribution > Hi,> > I'm no

AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Large sample size and normal distribution

2003-08-14 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Dear All,One week ago I posted a question about large n and normal distritbuion, and have got several good replies from Isobel Clark, Ned Levine, Ruben Roa Ureta, Thies Dose, Chris Hlavka, Donald Myers and Jeffrey Blume. Jeffrey is perhaps not in the list, but I assume he has no objections if

AI-GEOSTATS: Large sample size and normal distribution

2003-08-02 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
that the large sample size is also making trouble. I am looking for references on this topic. Any references or comments are welcome. Cheers, Chaosheng ------ Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography National Unive

AI-GEOSTATS: Box-Cox back transform & clustered sampling

2003-02-14 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
pling" to reduce nugget effect. I am dubious about this practice. Since variogram is a global paramter, areas with clustered samples may be over-represented. Any comments? Cheers, Chaosheng = Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Dep

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Outliers problems

2003-01-29 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
gards, Chaosheng = Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography National University of Ireland Galway IRELAND Tel: +353-91-524411 ext. 2375 Fax: +353-91-525700 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.nuigalway.ie/geog

AI-GEOSTATS: SUMMARY: Normal distributions

2002-05-24 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
autocorrelation, Spatial outlier, etc.? Geostatistics: Variogram, Kriging, Simulation, etc.? Regards, Chaosheng Zhang - Short answer is yes to everything. middle length answer is that Normality is not required for anything except where it is a basic assumpti

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Normal distributions

2002-05-20 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Isobel, Thanks for the reply. I feel this problem deserves more discussion. I have found the message from: Gregoire Dubois, Date: Mon Mar 5, 2001, Subject: AI-GEOSTATS: SUMMARY: Nscore transform & kriging of log normal data sets (The original author couldn't be found, and s/he should be in the

AI-GEOSTATS: Requirement of normal distribution?

2002-05-17 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
tial statistics: Spatial autocorrelation, Spatial outlier, etc.? Geostatistics: Variogram, Kriging, Simulation, etc.? Regards, Chaosheng Zhang == Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography National University of Ireland, Galw

AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Risk Assessment with Gaussian Simulation?

2002-05-02 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
. Regards, Chaosheng Zhang Original question: Dear list, First, I would like to say thank you to Gregoire for keeping this list alive. I'm trying to do "risk assessment", and I have some questions about risk assessment with Gaussian Simulati

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Risk Assessment with Gaussian Simulation?

2002-04-30 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
e pixel is increased by adding this kind of errors. I am not clear how to calculate the total standard deviation of the two sources, is it: Total standard deviation = SQRT (Kriging Variance + SQUARE (Sampling Errors) ) ? Any ideas and comments on this method? Chaosheng

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Risk Assessment with Gaussian Simulation?

2002-04-29 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
erts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dave McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:53 PM Subject: Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Risk Assessment with Gaussian Simulation? > Hello,

AI-GEOSTATS: Risk Assessment with Gaussian Simulation?

2002-04-27 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
;?   Following the above question, I have a problem in doing PCLASS. I cannot input the file name of Kriging variance to the field of "Value error" of the documentation file. It seems that this field only accepts a "value", not an "

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: relatively high semivariances at first lags

2002-04-15 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
regarded as a spatial outlier). Good luck. Chaosheng Zhang = Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography National University of Ireland Galway IRELAND Tel: +353-91-524411 ext. 2375 Fax: +353-91-525700 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Moran's I

2002-01-18 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
ran's I (2) Local Moran's I (3) Test for their significance level (4) Spatial Correlogram (5) Weighting function Wij which is suitable for polygon and point data Cheers, Chaosheng Zhang === Dr. Chaosheng Zhang Lecturer in GIS Department of Geography Na

AI-GEOSTATS: Summary: Extreme Values?

2001-12-22 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
comments and suggestions are quite helpful. As mentioned in several replies, this problem is also related to sampling design, Kriging grid system design, and spatial variation.   Please find following the original question and the replies.   Cheers,   Chaosheng Zhang

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Extreme values?

2001-12-14 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
l the extreme values with 99% or 98% percentiles. But I'm not sure if it is appropriate to do so. Cheers, Chaosheng Zhang - Original Message ----- From: "Marcel Vallée" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Chaosheng Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: AI-GEOSTATS: Extreme values?

2001-12-13 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
can be smoothed. I don't think this is the realistic situation in the field. Well, I am still not very confident what the best way should be ... I know the worst way is to discard these "outlying" values, and the second worst way is to use non-parametric methods. Cheers, Chaosheng

AI-GEOSTATS: Extreme values?

2001-12-13 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
values which account for less than 2% of the total sample number.    Any suggestions? Cheers,   Chaosheng Zhang ===Dr. Chaosheng ZhangDepartment of GeographyNational University of IrelandGalwayIRELANDTel: +353-91-524411 ext. 2375Fax: +353-91-525700Email: [EMAIL

AI-GEOSTATS: 3 GIS contract positions in Ireland

2001-02-19 Thread Chaosheng Zhang
Please find the following advertisement for three GIS positions at National University of Ireland, Galway. Please reply to the addresses according to the advertisement, not to the sender. --   National