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THE MODEL-BASED APPROACH TO GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS:
A Case Study of Micro-Nutrient Content in the Soils of the Witwatersrand Area
Mzabalazo Z. Ngwenya a, Christien Thiart b & Linda M. Haines b
a Biometry Unit, Agricultural Research Council (ARC), b Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town (UCT)
OUTLINE1. Introduction
o Geostatisticso Model-based geostatistics
2. Spatial prediction & Krigingo Model-based approacho Kriging predictor & varianceo Estimation of parameters
3. Case Studyo Descriptiono Motivation for studyo Analysis
4. Conclusions
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Geostatistics: The branch of spatial statistics concerned with continuous spatial variation
Traditional geostatistics developed largely independently outside mainstream spatial statistics hence the approach lacks statistical rigor
1.2 Model-based Geostatistics: The application of formal statistical methods of modeling and inference to geostatistical problems;
Analyses are carried out under explicitly assumed stochastic models
SPATIAL PREDICTION & KRIGING
2.1 Model-based approach
2.2 Kriging predictor & variance
2.3 Estimation of parameters
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CASE STUDY
3.1 Description
• 214 soil samples collected at 1000 locations between 2005 & 2008
• Various micronutrients measured; Fe, Zn, Pb, Cd, Co, Cr, Ni, Mn
3.2 Motivation for study
• Iron (Fe) has important role in plant health. Plays major role in Energy transfer within plant Nitrogen fixation Plant respiration & metabolism Chlorophyll development & function
• However its accumulation within plant cells can be toxic
STUDY AREA
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3.3 Analysis
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ESTIMATES OF PARAMETERS FOR FITTED ORDINARY KRIGING
MODELS
PROFILE LOG-LIKELIHOODS OF ESTIMATED PARAMETERS OF BEST MODEL
LOG SCALE
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KRIGING VARIANCES
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ORIGINAL SCALE
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CONCLUSIONS
• Clear methodology
• None of the subjectivity of empirical semivariogram construction
• Models for kriging selected on the basis of established statistical criterion
• Can obtain confidence intervals for parameters in models
• Methods extendable to multivariate and non-Gaussian cases
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Diggle, P.J. , Riberio, P.J. & Christensen, O.F. (2003). An introduction to model-based geostatistics. In Spatial Statistics and Computational Methods, Møller, J. (ed), Springer, 43-86.
Diggle, P.J. & Riberio, P.J. (2007). Model-Based Geostatistics. Springer, New York.
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