Sampling polygons for analysis in CART/randomForests
The lack of response indicates I was straying too far from the intent of the list. I apologize for my momentary lack of judgement... it won't happen again. Sincerely, Tim Howard **** Dear R - Geo community: This is perhaps a bit off topic (really a geostats question), but we've been struggling with these questions for about 6 months now, and it just reared its head again when I posed a question on one of ESRI's discussion groups. I realized you would be much more experienced in this issue and might be interested in offering advice. And this might be something others are struggling with as well. Background: We are creating predictive habitat distribution models (a good synthesis paper is Guisan and Zimmerman 2000. Ecological Modelling 135:147-186); using known locations of species to create a <snip>