Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-12 Thread Keith Dunnigan
: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 3:01 AM To: Keith Dunnigan Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data Keith, read my suggestion good; I didn't suggest replacing all zeroes in the distance matrix! You either rearrange point

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-12 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid > Sampled Data > > Keith, > > indeed kriging usually fails when one or more point pairs have zero > distance. One solution in terms of distances would be to shift these > points a

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-11 Thread Christopher Paciorek
numbers up to 5, with no luck. Anyone have any other ideas? Keith - Original Message- From: Edzer J. Pebesma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:30 PM To: Keith Dunnigan Cc: r- sig- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [R- sig- Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Mat

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-11 Thread Keith Dunnigan
luck. Anyone have any other ideas? Keith -Original Message- From: Edzer J. Pebesma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:30 PM To: Keith Dunnigan Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-11 Thread Edzer J. Pebesma
Keith, indeed kriging usually fails when one or more point pairs have zero distance. One solution in terms of distances would be to shift these points a bit, such that no zero distances occur anymore. In terms of the covariances, the solution would be to lower the corresponding off-diagonal en

[R-sig-Geo] Positive Definite Covariance Matrix for Grid Sampled Data

2007-09-11 Thread Keith Dunnigan
Hello all, First I would like to apologize if this question is inappropriate for this list. I am new here, I found this list doing a web search and it seemed like the members here would have knowledge in this area. If there are more appropriate lists of forums for this question, I would app