[R] How do I back transforme ordinary log-krigged prediction values?

Zia Uddin Ahmed zua3 at cornell.edu
Tue Apr 10 21:16:49 CEST 2007


Farrar,

I did ordinary kriging (OK) after log10 transformation. I need to
backtransfer my predicted data to original unit. You are right! Anti-log
of the predictions for bcaktransformation might give biased values. For
minimize the biasness, it is necessary know the lagrange-multiplier (y)
and prediction error (s).

"We can not just exponentiate the estimate, because the estimate is a
weighted sum(not product!) of logarithms".

This is the  formula for back-transformation  OK predictions:
Z(~x0) = e{ˆY (~x0)+s2OK(~x0)/2−y}

I do not know, how to extract lagrange-multiplier  after OK prediction in
gstat in R.


Thanks

Zia

>
>   Zia,
>   I'm not an expert on Kriging, or on the particular package.  It sounds
> like you just want to know how to anti-log the predictions,. which
> shouldn't be hard.  However, depending on what you actually need to
> predict, it seems your predictions might be biased, right?
>
> regards,
>   Farrar
>
>
> Zia Uddin Ahmed <zua3 at cornell.edu> wrote:
>   I have a question to everybody.
>
> After log10 transfprmation, I have done ordinary kriging in gstat in R? I
> need to back trnasform the prediction values to orgiginal scale. How do I
> do this in gstat in R?
>
> Thanks
>
> Zia
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Zia Uddin Ahmed
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Department of Crop and Soil
Cornell University
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