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Exploratory Spatial Analysis

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In this chapter the tools for spatial exploratory analysis are provided. These include data postings, swathplots and experimental variograms.

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Notes

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    With respect to the metric underlying the starting transformed scores ζ = glr(z).

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    If the factors do not exhibit structured spatial cross correlation, then the representation is an expansion via empirical orthogonal functions.

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Tolosana-Delgado, R., Mueller, U. (2021). Exploratory Spatial Analysis. In: Geostatistics for Compositional Data with R. Use R!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82568-3_4

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