Andrew
You can apply 'standard' geostatistics if the
measurements are the 'average' (or some similar
feature) over an area.
It makes interpeting the semi-variogram extremely
tricky if you combine many different sizes of sample,
but common sense is the main thing here. The trick is
to derive a point semi-variogram model from which any
size can be derived (see Chapter 3, Practical
Geostatistics 1979, downloadable free from Web,
http://uk.geocities.com/drisobelclark/practica.html)
Kriging is modified to reflect that the samples are
averages, mainly by changing the diagonal elements in
the equations so that they are non-zero. I don't know
any software package (off hand ) that does this,
though.
Isobel Clark
--- Andrew Mullens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote: > I have a question relating to this question,
> certainly not to question the
> previous writer, it just seems like a good time to
> bring it up. Will
> variograming and other such techniques work for the
> data the previous writer
> described, e.g samples aren't at points, but areas
> (and areas that might
> have very little to do with the question). If they
> did use points in the
> calculations where would the points be placed, at
> the center of the county,
> at the major population center, at some arbitrary
> point (e.g most northerly
> point).
>
> I may be miss reading the description, perhaps the
> sample are point samples,
> but were taken with one sample in each county.
>
> Obviously the point samples are never really point
> sample, they must be
> taken over some area, approximating a point, but
> does this design seem to
> push the boundaries on that assumption.
>
> Andrew
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Yadollah Waghei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 7:33 AM
> Subject: AI-GEOSTATS: Choosing Lag Distance and
> Angular Tolerance
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>
> > Hello dears
> > I have a spatial data set contaning n=262
> observarion (The variable of
> interest is Rate of Tuberculosis in 262 counties of
> Iran). I want to fit
> some models to Directional semi-variograms,and then
> build anisotropic
> semi-variogram.
> > Then questions are
> > - Is there any rule for choosing Lag Distance and
> Angular Tolerance?
> > -Also,how we can balance between Lag Distance and
> Angular Tolerance?
> > -Do you agree that both must be very small,as
> possible?(Such that number
> of pairs in each lag>20, for example)
> >
> > Thank you
> > Yadollah Waghei
> > Dep.of Biostatistics
> > Tarbiat Modarres Univ.(Tehran)Po.Box: 14115-111
> > Tel:8011001-3872 Fax:8007989
> >
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