Inner product matrices, kriging, and nonparametric estimation of variogram |
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Authors: | Subhash Lele |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biostatistics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, 21205 Baltimore, Maryland |
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Abstract: | Two important problems in the practical implementation of kriging are: (1) estimation of the variogram, and (2) estimation of the prediction error. In this paper, a nonparametric estimator of the variogram to circumvent the problem of the precise choice of a variogram model is proposed. Using orthogonal decomposition of the kriging predictor and the prediction error, a method for selecting, what may be considered, a statistical neighborhood is suggested. The prediction error estimates based on this scheme, in fact, reflects the true prediction error, thus leading to proper coverage for the corresponding prediction interval. By simulations and a reanalysis of published data, it is shown that the proposals made in this paper are useful in practice. |
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Keywords: | conditionally negative definite function positive definite matrix prediction error principal components |
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