[R-sig-Geo] Introducing new local spatial statistic, ELSA, and Entrogram (a variogram-like graph)

[chris english]

Babak,

Look forward to exploring elsa, any plans to open source the journal
article?

Chris English

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 1:08 AM Babak Naimi <naimi.b using gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Hope you are safe and well!
>
> I am writing to inform you that the new R package, elsa, is released on
> CRAN. This package is a framework that provides the methods for quantifying
> the new local spatial statictic, named "entropy-based local indicator of
> spatial association" (ELSA), that can be used for both continuous and
> categorical data. In addition, global spatial structure can be measured
> using a new variogram-like diagram, called entrogram.
>
> The package vignette provides a quick demonstration of some main functions
> in the package:
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/elsa/vignettes/elsa.html
>
> The paper that introduces ELSA is published in the journal of spatial
> statistics and is available here:
>
> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211675318300228
>
> The package, elsa, is also followed with functions to calculate other LISAs
> and global statistics for different types of spatial datasets (i.e.,
> Raster, SpatialPointsDataFrame, SpatialPolygonsDataFrame).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Babak Naimi
>
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