rongelap {geoRglm}R Documentation

Radionuclide Concentrations on Rongelap Island

Description

This data-set was used by Diggle, Tawn and Moyeed (1998) to illustrate the model-based geostatistical methodology introduced in the paper. discussed in the paper. The radionuclide concentration data set consists of measurements of gamma-ray counts at 157 locations.

Usage

data(rongelap)

Format

The object is a list with the following components:

coords
the coordinates of data locations.
data
the data.
units.m
n-dimensional vector of observation-times for the data.
borders
a matrix with the coordinates defining the coastline on Rongelap Island.

Source

For further details on the radionuclide concentration data, see Diggle, Harper and Simon (1997), Diggle {em et al.} (1998) and Christensen (2004).

References

Christensen, O. F. (2004). Monte Carlo maximum likelihood in model-based geostatistics. Journal of computational and graphical statistics 13 702-718.

Diggle, P. J., Harper, L. and Simon, S. L. (1997). Geostatistical analysis of residual contamination from nuclea testing. In: Statistics for the environment 3: pollution assesment and control (eds. V. Barnet and K. F. Turkmann), Wiley, Chichester, 89-107.

Diggle, P. J., Tawn, J. A. and Moyeed, R. A. (1998). Model-based geostatistics (with Discussion). Applied Statistics, 47, 299–350.


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