Message-ID: <CAAVnHsvRb=Pk+_z77UhqO6WdN8xnSYiDf6qC7Yx03ZrvSFayEQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2012-08-01T08:54:29Z
From: Ivailo
Subject: bin averages and spatial autocorrelation
In-Reply-To: <CAPqhyzzoCpn9SuUv75B-EUY3hitT2FO8U9xP_rCFKCRUj-qaPA@mail.gmail.com>
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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