Testing pairwise association between spatially autocorrelated variables: a new approach using surrogate lattice data.

BACKGROUND: Independence between observations is a standard prerequisite of traditional statistical tests of association. This condition is, however, violated when autocorrelation is present within the data. In the case of variables that are regularly sampled in space (i.e. lattice data or images),...

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Autors principals: Vincent Deblauwe, Pol Kennel, Pierre Couteron
Format: Article
Idioma:English
Publicat: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Col·lecció:PLoS ONE
Accés en línia:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3492436?pdf=render