Quantitative Methods

Who are you?

Posted in Uncategorized by Nicholas on October 6, 2009

I haven’t really checked this page since I taught it in Spring of 09.  But I just did, and I see that there is a low level of continued usage – particularly for the function scatter.color.

So, I’m curious… who are you?  What are you using?  Who knows, if a lot of people are using something, I may just improve on it.

If you know me, say hi.  Heck, even if you don’t know me, say hi also.

GLM Lab

Posted in labs by Nicholas on April 28, 2009

The lab is here, the data are here.

Principal Components (Empirical Orthogonal Functions)

Posted in labs by Nicholas on April 14, 2009

The lab is here, the data are here.

grid <- expand.grid(x=lon,y=lat)

grid2 <- data.frame(x=grid$x,y=grid$y,eof=eof)

Spectral Analysis

Posted in Uncategorized by Nicholas on April 7, 2009

The lab is here.

Time Series Lab 1

Posted in labs by Nicholas on March 31, 2009

The lab is here.

Lab 8- Point Patterns

Posted in Uncategorized by Nicholas on March 17, 2009

The lab is here.

I want you to add one thing to part 1: After you calculate and plot the L function, calculate and plot the K function.

Data for the second part are in this zip file.

Lab 7

Posted in labs by Nicholas on March 3, 2009

The lab is here.

Lab 6

Posted in labs by Nicholas on February 24, 2009

There is no assignment this week, but I have two R scripts for you to look at.  Rather than copying and pasting them into R, I would right click and choose “save link as”.

The first one, indicatorSim.R, looks at how you could use multiple indicator kriging to simulate an entire dataset. In the last lab, we used single indicator kriging to simulate the probability that a pixel was above 100 ppb with the jura dataset. Here, we will look at a range of values, from low to high.

The second one, lab6.GLS.R, applies Generalized Least Squares to the meuse data. The lead concentrations are first regressed on distance to the river using OLS. The residuals are then extracted, and a semivariogram is fit to them, and GLS is calculated.

Previous mid-term

Posted in Advice, Announcements by Nicholas on February 17, 2009

I last taught this class two-year ago. Here is the mid-term. Some of the questions would be fair game this semester, others would not.

Lab 5

Posted in Uncategorized by Nicholas on February 17, 2009

Lab 5 is here.

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