sptotal : an R package for predicting totals and weighted sums from spatial data
In ecological or environmental surveys, it is often desired to predict the mean or total of a variable in some finite region. However, because of time and money constraints, sampling the entire region is often unfeasible. The purpose of the sptotal R package is to provide software that gives a predi...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Journal of open source software. - 2017. - 8(2023), 85 vom: 24. Mai, Seite 1-4 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2023
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Journal of open source software |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article |
| Zusammenfassung: | In ecological or environmental surveys, it is often desired to predict the mean or total of a variable in some finite region. However, because of time and money constraints, sampling the entire region is often unfeasible. The purpose of the sptotal R package is to provide software that gives a prediction for a quantity of interest, such as a total, and an associated standard error for the prediction. The predictor, referred to as the Finite-Population-Block-Kriging (FPBK) predictor in the literature (J. M. Ver Hoef, 2008), incorporates possible spatial correlation in the data and also incorporates an appropriate variance reduction for sampling from a finite population. In the remainder of the paper, we give an overview of both the background of the method and of the sptotal package |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Revised 25.05.2024 published: Print Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 2475-9066 |
| DOI: | 10.21105/joss.05363 |