rongelap {geoR}

Radionuclide Concentrations on Rongelap Island

Description

This data-set was used by Diggle, Tawn and Moyeed (1998) to illustrate the model-based geostatistical methodology introduced in the paper. discussed in the paper. The radionuclide concentration data set consists of measurements of \gamma-ray counts at 157 locations.

Usage

data(rongelap)

Format

The object is a list with the following components:

coords

the coordinates of data locations.

data

the data.

units.m

n-dimensional vector of observation-times for the data.

borders

a matrix with the coordinates defining the coastline on Rongelap Island.

Source

For further details on the radionuclide concentration data, see Diggle, Harper and Simon (1997), Diggle, Tawn and Moyeed (1998) and Christensen (2004).

References

Christensen, O. F. (2004). Monte Carlo maximum likelihood in model-based geostatistics. Journal of computational and graphical statistics 13 702-718.

Diggle, P. J., Harper, L. and Simon, S. L. (1997). Geostatistical analysis of residual contamination from nuclea testing. In: Statistics for the environment 3: pollution assesment and control (eds. V. Barnet and K. F. Turkmann), Wiley, Chichester, 89-107.

Diggle, P. J., Tawn, J. A. and Moyeed, R. A. (1998). Model-based geostatistics (with Discussion). Applied Statistics, 47, 299–350.