Capture the Dominant Spatial Patten with One-Dimensional Locations

Wen-Ting Wang

Objective

We have two objectives 1. Demonstrate how SpatPCA captures the most dominant spatial pattern of variation based on different signal-to-noise ratios. 2. Represent how to use SpatPCA for one-dimensional data

Basic settings

Used packages

True spatial pattern (eigenfunction)

The underlying spatial pattern below indicates realizations will vary dramatically at the center and almost unchange at the both ends of the curve.

Case I: Higher signal of the true eigenfunction

Generate realizations

We want to generate 100 random sample based on - The spatial signal for the true spatial pattern is distributed normally with \(\sigma=20\) - The noise follows the standard normal distribution.

Animate realizations

We can see simulated central realizations change in a wide range more frequently than the others.

Apply SpatPCA::spatpca

Compare SpatPCA with PCA

There are two comparison remarks 1. Two estimates are similar to the true eigenfunctions 2. SpatPCA can perform better at the both ends.

Case II: Lower signal of the true eigenfunction

Generate realizations with \(\sigma=3\)

Animate realizations

It is hard to see a crystal clear spatial pattern via the simluated sample shown below.

Compare resultant patterns

The following panel indicates that SpatPCA outperforms to PCA visually when the signal-to-noise ratio is quite lower.