SpatialVariance-class {spcosa}

Class "SpatialVariance"

Description

The spatial variance is estimated by means of Equation 7.16 in de Gruijter et al., (2006).

Objects from the Class

Objects can be created by calls of the form new("SpatialVariance", ...).

Slots

description:

Object of class "character" A description op the statistic.

Extends

Class "Statistic", directly.

Methods

estimate

signature(statistic = "SpatialVariance", stratification = "CompactStratification", samplingPattern = "SamplingPatternRandomSamplingUnits", data = "data.frame"): estimates the spatial variance, given a stratification, a sampling pattern and data.

Author(s)

Dennis J. J. Walvoort [e-mail], D.J. Brus, J.J. de Gruijter

References

de Gruijter, J. J., Brus, D. J., Bierkens, M. F. P., and Knotters, M. (2006) Sampling for Natural Resource Monitoring Berlin: Springer-Verlag.