sim.Krig {fields} | R Documentation

## Conditonal simulation of a spatial process

### Description

Generates exact (or approximate) random draws from the conditional distribution of a spatial process given specific observations. This is a useful way to characterize the uncertainty in the predicted process from data. This is known as conditional simulation in geostatistics or generating an ensemble prediction in the geosciences. sim.Krig.grid can generate a conditional sample for a large regular grid but is restricted to stationary correlation functions.

### Usage

    sim.Krig.standard(object, xp, M = 1, verbose = FALSE, sigma2 = NA, rho = NA)

    sim.Krig.grid(object, grid.list = NA, M = 1, nx = 40, ny = 40, xy=c(1,2), verbose =
    FALSE,
    sigma2 = NA, rho = NA, extrap = FALSE)

### Arguments

`object` | A Krig object
`xp` | Locations where to evaluate the conditional process.
`M` | Number of draws from conditional distribution.
`verbose` | If true prints out intermediate information.
`sigma2` | User specified value for nugget variance or measurement error. See Details below.
`rho` | User specified value for sill, or multiplier of spatial covariance function. See Detials below.
`grid.list` | Grid information for evaluating the conditional surface as a grid.list.
`nx` | Number of grid points in x.
`ny` | Number of grid points in y.
`xy` | A two element vector giving the positions for the "X" and "Y" variables for the surface. The positions refer to the columns of the location matrix used to define the multidimensional surface from the Krig object. This argument is provided in lieu of generating the grid list. If a 4 dimensional surface is fit to data then `xy= c(2,4)` will evaluate a surface using the second and fourth variables with variables 1 and 3 fixed at their median values. NOTE: this argument is ignored if a grid.list argument is passed.
`extrap` | If FALSE conditional process is not evaluated outside the convex hull of observations.

### Details

These functions generate samples from a conditional multivariate distribution that describes the uncertainty in the estimated spatial process under Gaussian assumptions. An important approximation throughout these functions is that all covariance parameters are fixed at their estimated or prescribed values.

Given a spatial process Z(x)= P(x) + h(x) observed at

Y.k = P(x.k) + h(x.k) + e.k

where P(x) is a low order, fixed polynomial and h(x) a Gaussian spatial process. With Y= Y.1, ..., Y.N, the goal is to sample the conditional distribution of the process.

[Z(x) | Y ]

For fixed a covariance this is just a multivariate normal sampling problem. `sim.Krig.standard` samples this conditional process at the points `xp` and is exact for fixed covariance parameters. `sim.Krig.grid` also assumes fixed covariance parameters and does approxiamte sampling on a grid.

The outline of the algorithm is

0) Find the spatial prediction at the unobserved locations based on the actual data. Call this Z.hat(x).

1) Generate an unconditional spatial process and from this process simluate synthetic observations.

2) Use the spatial prediction model ( using the true covariance) to estimate the spatial process at unobserved locations.

3) Find the difference between the simulated process and its prediction based on synthetic observations. Call this e(x).

4) Z.hat(x) + e(x) is a draw from [Z(x) | Y ].

`sim.Krig.standard` follows this algorithm exactly.

`sim.Krig.grid` evaluates the conditional surface on grid and simulates the values of h(x) off the grid using bilinear interpolation of the four nearest grid points. Because of this approximation it is important to choose the grid to be fine relative to the spacing of the observations. The advantage of this approximation is that one can consider conditional simulation for large grids – beyond the size possible with exact methods. Here the method for simulation is circulant embedding and so is restricted to correlation stationary fields.

### Value

For `sim.Krig.standard` a matrix with columns indexed by the locations in `xp` and `M` rows.
For `sim.Krig.grid` a list with arguments `x` and `y` defining the grid locations in the usual manner and `z` contains the values of the simulated conditional field(s). `z` is a three dimesional array where the first two indices are "x" and "y" and the third index is between 1 and M and indexes the simulated fields.

### Author(s)

Doug Nychka

### See Also

sim.rf, Krig

### Examples

    data( ozone2)

    set.seed( 399)

    # fit to day 16 from Midwest ozone data set.
    Krig( ozone2$lon.lat, ozone2$y[16,], Covariance="Matern",
    theta=1.0,smoothness=1.0, na.rm=TRUE)-> out

    # NOTE theta =1.0 is not the best choice but
    # allows the sim.rf circulant embedding algorithm to
    # work without increasing the domain.

    #six missing data locations
     xp<-  ozone2$lon.lat[ is.na(ozone2$y[16,]),]

    # 50 draws from process at xp given the data
    # this is an exact calculation
     sim.Krig.standard( out,xp, M=50)-> sim.out

    # Compare: stats(sim.out)[3,] to  Exact: predict.se( out, xp)

    # simulations on a grid
    # NOTE this is approximate due to the bilinear interpolation
    # for simulating the unconditional random field.

    sim.Krig.grid(out,M=5)-> sim.out

    # take a look at the ensemble members.

    predict.surface( out, grid= list( x=sim.out$x, y=sim.out$y))-> look

    zr<- c( 40, 200)

    set.panel( 3,2)
    image.plot( look, zlim=zr)
    title("mean surface")

    for ( k in 1:5){
    image( sim.out$x, sim.out$y, sim.out$z[,,k], col=tim.colors(), zlim =zr)
    }

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