Re: [R-sig-Geo] question about fitted values form geoR - results 'too good'

2007-11-09 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
Kriging is an exact interpolator. It will always reproduce the values that you use to predict if they are located on the same locations. You should use an independant data set (or some sort of cross-validation) to check how good your prediction is. On Nov 8, 2007 10:47 PM, Ken Nussear <[EMAIL PROT

[R-sig-Geo] question about fitted values form geoR - results 'too good'

2007-11-08 Thread Ken Nussear
Hi I'm using geoR for some spatial linear models and I'm getting surprisingly optimistic values from the spatial models relative to the non-spatial, even when the models appear to be performing about equally (by AIC comparison) For example This model relating encounter rates of lizards to