fields swMATH ID: 8187 Software Authors: Douglas Nychka; Reinhard Furrer; Stephan Sain Description: R package fields: Tools for spatial data. Fields is for curve, surface and function fitting with an emphasis on splines, spatial data and spatial statistics. The major methods include cubic, and thin plate splines, Kriging and compact covariances for large data sets. The splines and Kriging methods are supporting by functions that can determine the smoothing parameter (nugget and sill variance) by cross validation and also by restricted maximum likelihood. A major feature is that any covariance function implemented in R and following a simple fields format can be used for spatial prediction. Some tailored optimization functions are supplied for finding the MLEs for the Matern family of covariances. There are also many useful functions for plotting and working with spatial data as images. This package also contains an implementation of sparse matrix methods for large spatial data sets and currently requires the sparse matrix (spam) package. But spam is not required for the standard spatial functions. Use help(fields) to get started and for an overview. The fields source code is heavily commented and provides useful explanations of numerical details in addition to the manual pages. Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/fields/index.html Source Code: https://github.com/cran/fields Dependencies: R Related Software: R; spBayes; geoR; gstat; RandomFields; ggplot2; R-INLA; tgp; Matrix; SemiPar; CODA; geoRglm; spTimer; quantreg; convoSPAT; CRAN; gam; e1071; lattice; R2WinBUGS Cited in: 31 Documents all top 5 Cited by 78 Authors 2 Cooley, Daniel S. 2 Genton, Marc G. 2 Holan, Scott H. 2 Jung, Yoonsuh 2 Reich, Brian James 2 Ruppert, David 2 Stoev, Stilian A. 2 Wand, Matthew P. 2 Wikle, Christopher K. 1 Bartzke, Gundula 1 Bean, Brennan 1 Bernardi, Mara S. 1 Bradley, Jonathan R. 1 Brantley, Halley L. 1 Braun, W. John 1 Cantoni, Eva 1 Carey, Michelle 1 Carroll, Raymond James 1 Chatterjee, Snigdhansu 1 Chen, Chen 1 Chen, Jiaxun 1 Chen, Xueping 1 Chi, Eric C. 1 Dombry, Clément 1 Dublin, Holly T. 1 Ebert-Uphoff, Imme 1 Falke, Andreas 1 Fuglstad, Geir-Arne 1 Guinness, Joseph 1 Hamann, Jeff D. 1 Harezlak, Jaroslaw 1 Heaton, T. J. 1 Hruschka, Harald 1 Huang, Hengzhen 1 Huang, Whitney K. 1 Irincheeva, Irina 1 Kaufman, Cari G. 1 Kim, Hang Joon 1 Kim, Mingang 1 Kirsner, Daniel 1 Leitenstorfer, Florian 1 Ludkovski, Michael 1 MacEachern, Steven N. 1 MacQueen, Sarah A. 1 Maguire, Marc 1 Martin, Kieran J. 1 Martínez-Hernández, Israel 1 Martins, André C. R. 1 Micheas, Athanasios Christou 1 Morris, Samuel A. 1 Mukhopadhyay, Sabyasachi 1 Nilon, Charles H. 1 Ogutu, Joseph O. 1 Overstall, Antony M. 1 Paige, John 1 Piepho, Hans-Peter 1 Raim, Andrew M. 1 Ramsay, James O. 1 Ribatet, Mathieu 1 Riebler, Andrea 1 Risk, Jimmy 1 Risser, Mark D. 1 Robinson, Andrew P. 1 Sangalli, Laura Maria 1 Sansó, Bruno 1 Schlittgen, Rainer 1 Shaby, Benjamin A. 1 Shin, Wooyoung 1 Silverman, Bernard W. 1 Sun, Yan 1 Thibaud, Emeric 1 Turek, Daniel 1 Tutz, Gerhard E. 1 Tyson, Rebecca C. 1 Wakefield, Jon C. 1 Wang, Yizao 1 Woods, David C. 1 Wu, Guohui all top 5 Cited in 21 Serials 5 Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 3 The Annals of Applied Statistics 3 Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 2 Computational Statistics 2 Use R! 1 Advances in Applied Probability 1 Physics Letters. A 1 Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 1 Journal of the American Statistical Association 1 Journal of Multivariate Analysis 1 Insurance Mathematics & Economics 1 International Journal of Approximate Reasoning 1 Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation 1 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B. Statistical Methodology 1 Journal of Applied Statistics 1 Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics 1 OR Spectrum 1 Journal of the Korean Statistical Society 1 AStA. Advances in Statistical Analysis 1 Electronic Journal of Statistics 1 Journal of Theoretical Biology all top 5 Cited in 9 Fields 26 Statistics (62-XX) 8 Numerical analysis (65-XX) 5 Probability theory and stochastic processes (60-XX) 4 Geophysics (86-XX) 3 Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX) 2 Operations research, mathematical programming (90-XX) 1 Approximations and expansions (41-XX) 1 Biology and other natural sciences (92-XX) 1 Systems theory; control (93-XX) Citations by Year