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interpolation with missing values

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:35 PM, mauvela <mauricioandresvela at gmail.com> wrote:
Off the top of my head, do multiple imputations of the missing values
based on the mean and sd of the values at that site when not missing.
You'll then end up with a number (100, say) of kriged maps. You can
probably then take the mean over those as your map and for the
variance you'll have to combine the kriging variance with the
imputation variance...

 This is probably valid assuming the dropouts are random... Also, it
doesn't take into account any temporal correlation which might get you
a better estimate of your imputed values...

 What you do may also depend on what you are doing with the data. If
its just to produce pretty maps, then you might not need something so
sophisticated. If you are computing the number of days that PM10 in
some location exceeds some threshold, then you may have to give it
some more thought...

Barry