Revisiting Guerry's data: introducing spatial constraints in multivariate analysis

DOI10.1214/10-AOAS356zbMATH Open1234.62092arXiv1202.6485OpenAlexW3102969862WikidataQ59392467 ScholiaQ59392467MaRDI QIDQ765968FDOQ765968

Thibaut Jombart, Stéphane Dray

Publication date: 22 March 2012

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Standard multivariate analysis methods aim to identify and summarize the main structures in large data sets containing the description of a number of observations by several variables. In many cases, spatial information is also available for each observation, so that a map can be associated to the multivariate data set. Two main objectives are relevant in the analysis of spatial multivariate data: summarizing covariation structures and identifying spatial patterns. In practice, achieving both goals simultaneously is a statistical challenge, and a range of methods have been developed that offer trade-offs between these two objectives. In an applied context, this methodological question has been and remains a major issue in community ecology, where species assemblages (i.e., covariation between species abundances) are often driven by spatial processes (and thus exhibit spatial patterns). In this paper we review a variety of methods developed in community ecology to investigate multivariate spatial patterns. We present different ways of incorporating spatial constraints in multivariate analysis and illustrate these different approaches using the famous data set on moral statistics in France published by Andr'{e}-Michel Guerry in 1833. We discuss and compare the properties of these different approaches both from a practical and theoretical viewpoint.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.6485

zbMATH Keywords

autocorrelationduality diagramspatial weighting matrix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Directional data; spatial statistics (62H11) Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Applications of statistics to environmental and related topics (62P12) Graphical methods in statistics (62A09)

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