spatialpred {biotools}

Spatial Predictions Based on the Circular Variable-Radius Moving Window Method

Description

A heuristic method to perform spatial predictions. The method consists of a local interpolator with stochastic features. It allows to build effective detailed maps and to estimate the spatial dependence without any assumptions on the spatial process.

Usage

spatialpred(coords, data, grid)

Arguments

coords

a data frame or numeric matrix containing columns with geographic coordinates

data

a numeric vector of compatible dimension with coords containing the response variable data to be predicted at each grid point

grid

a data frame or numeric matrix containing columns with geographic coordinates where data is to be predicted

Details

If grid receives the same input as coords, spatialpred will calculate the Percenntual Absolute Mean Error (PAME) of predictions.

Value

A data.frame containing spatial predictions, standard errors, the radius and the number of observations used in each prediction over the grid.

Warning

Depending on the dimension of coords and/or grid, spatialpred() can be time demanding.

Author(s)

Anderson Rodrigo da Silva <[e-mail]>

References

Da Silva, A.R., Silva, A.P.A., Tiago-Neto, L.J. (2020) A new local stochastic method for predicting data with spatial heterogeneity. ACTA SCIENTIARUM-AGRONOMY, 43:e49947.

See Also

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Examples

# data(moco)
# p <- spatialpred(coords = moco[, 1:2], data = rnorm(206), grid = moco[, 1:2]) 
# note: using coords as grid to calculate PAME
# head(p)
# lattice::levelplot(pred ~ Lat*Lon, data = p)

# End (not run)