Statistics 406

Spring 2008

Selected Class Notes

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  1. Examples introduced during the first class: Introductory Examples (Motivation?)
  2. Graphs to illustrate the general introductory concepts (discussed during the week of January 22-24)
  3. Graphs to illustrate the issues related to the concept of spatial dependence and variogram
  4. An example of a simulated data set exhibiting positive spatial dependence
  5. An example of a simulated data set which does not exhibit spatial dependence
  6. Examples for fitting theoretical models to sample variograms
  7. Image plots of a data set and maps obtained through ordinary kriging
  8. Graphs illustrating trend removal and directional variograms for the Mercer Hall Wheat data set (here is a brief explanation of this famous data set)
  9. Philip Dixon's point pattern analysis short course notes and hands-on examples