[R-sig-eco] bin averages and spatial autocorrelation

[Ivailo]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:14 PM, carola cullum <carolacullum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could someone please explain to me the advantages and disadvantages of
> using binned averages for reducing noise in ecological data?

Carola,

I am not sure if there are any advantages, but I know that binning a
continuous variable leads to loss of information and hence degraded
precision of the estimated parameters for that variable (for a
detailed list of related problems see http://tinyurl.com/c6nbdmq).

Hope this helps,
Ivailo
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