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 correlated data provide redundant information
ChaoshengSome thoughts in response toyour questions:1: "Spatially correlated data provide redundant information for thecalculation of mean" I would not say "redundant". Even if information is correlated, the correlation is not perfect (=1) which wouldbe "redundant". If the data is