Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data
Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data
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DOI:
10.1198/004017002320256585
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发表时间:
2002-08
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
P. Minton
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作者:
P. Minton
these ideas, iterative algorithms are formulated for nding optimum or nearly optimum designs for estimating the rst order characteristics of the spatial process under study. Methods for nding optimum designs are also presented for the case where measurements may be replicated in time, such as in the case of environmental monitoring. Chapter 6 treats the problem of nding optimum designs for estimating second order characteristics of a spatial process such as variogram estimation. Again, classical theory is adapted to handle spatial correlations. Several algorithmic approaches are discussed and their performances compared. A method is proposed for combining designs that are optimum for different objectives to obtain a single design with good overall performance, although such a design may not necessarily be optimal for any of the individual objectives. In each chapter the theory is illustrated using spatial data related to the reconstruction of the Upper-Austrian sulfur dioxide monitoring network consisting of 17 monitoring sites. Additionally, using a second real example dataset, a list of exercises is developed. This dataset consists of Chloride measurements from 36 water quality monitoring stations in the Danube River Basin in central Lower Austria for the period 1992–1997. All of the data may be downloaded from http://statistik.wu-wien.ac.at/stat4/mueller/csd/data.zip. Adequate journal article and book references are given at the end of each chapter. There are seven appendices. Appendix A.1 gives a description of the two main data sets used in the book. Proofs of various nontrivial mathematical facts mentioned in the body of the book are given in Appendixes A.2 through A.6. According to the author, computations reported in the book were done using a program called D2PT which is written using GAUSS386 V3.2 (Aptech, 1993). An application module may be downloaded from http://statistik.wu-wien.ac.at/stat4/mueller/csd/d2pt.zip for the book. A description of the variables used in D2PT is given in Appendix A.7. A list of symbols used in the book and their meanings are given immediately following the Table of