[R-sig-Geo] Can you krige with a nominal response variable

[Edzer J. Pebesma]

Ken,

The indicator kriging idea does not stop at a single binary variable. 
The "standard" (or "Stanford"?) way of getting non-negative predictions, 
and possibly predictions that sum to one is rather pragmatic--simply 
postprocessing predictions. There is a cleaner solution, called 
compositional kriging, which adds the "predictions should be 
non-negative and sum to one" constraint to the kriging system, but I 
don't know if implemenations are available in R. For compositional data 
analysis you may want to explore the R package compositions. I believe 
it does not do compositional kriging, but perhaps its author has 
suggestions; I Cc:'d this email to the author.

Best regards,
--
Edzer

Pierce, Ken wrote:
>  
> Is there a method for kriging a response with multiple states, for
> instance vegetation class in 10 classes? I know indicator kriging would
> work for a boolean variable. Is there an extension for multiple
> responses?
>
> Kenneth B. Pierce Jr.
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