R/data.R

In deform: Spatial Deformation and Dimension Expansion Gaussian Processes

#' Variance-covariance matrix for British Columbia solar radiation data
#'
#' @name solar
#' @docType data
#' 
#' @format A \code{list} with three elements, which are:
#' 
#' \describe{
#'   \item{x}{a 12-row 2-column matrix of longitude-latitude coordinates for 12 stations}
#'   \item{z}{a 12-row 12-column variance-covariance matrix}
#'   \item{n}{an integer giving the original sample size}
#' }
#'
#' @source 
#' 
#' These data were kindly provided by Alexandra Schmidt. They were originally published in 
#' Hay (1983) and then used in Sampson and Guttorp's (1992) pioneering deformation paper.
#' 
#' Hay, J. E. (1983) Solar energy system design: The impact of mesoscale variations in solar 
#' radiation, Atmosphere-Ocean, 21:2, 138-157, \doi{10.1080/07055900.1983.9649161}
#'
#' Sampson, P. D. and Guttorp, P. (1992) Nonparametric Estimation of Nonstationary Spatial
#' Covariance Structure, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 87:417, 108-119,
#' \doi{10.1080/01621459.1992.10475181}
#'
#' @keywords data
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