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Activity Number: 362 - Contributed Poster Presentations: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2020 : 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Sponsor: Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abstract #313684
Title: Multi-Resolution Approximations for Large Agricultural Data
Author(s): Paul May* and Hossein Rekabdarkolaee
Companies: and
Keywords: Agriculture; Spatial Statistics; Large Data; Regression
Abstract:

Precision agriculture is the leveraging of data for better farming practices. An important aspect of precision agriculture is analyzing the effect of covariates on crop yield. Agricultural data sets can be very large, making likelihood-based inference on traditional spatial models computationally burdensome. The Multi-Resolution Approximation allows for fast inference on Gaussian processes by using a particular covariance structure. We show through a simulation study and the analysis of a real agricultural data set that the Multi-Resolution Approximation can be used to estimate covariate effects with near-identical accuracy as traditional likelihood estimation, and with great computational advantage.


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