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Li, J.
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The accuracy of spatially continuous environmental data, usually generated from point samples using spatial prediction methods, is crucial for evidence-informed environmental management and conservation. Improving the accuracy by identifying the most accurate methods is essential, but also challenging since the accuracy is often data specific and affected by multiple factors. Recently developed hybrid methods of machine learning methods and geostatistics have shown their advantages in spatial predictive modelling in environmental sciences and significantly improved predictive accuracy. An R package, ‘spm: Spatial Predictive Modelling’, has been developed to introduce these methods and has been recently released for R users. It not only introduces the hybrid methods for improving predictive accuracy, but can also be used to improve modelling efficiency. This presentation will briefly introduce the developmental history of novel hybrid geostatistical and machine learning methods in spm. It will introduce spm, by covering: 1) spatial predictive methods, 2) new hybrid methods of geostatistical and machine learning methods, 3) assessment of predictive accuracy, 4) applications of spatial predictive models, and 5) relevant functions in spm. It will then demonstrate how to apply some functions in spm to relevant datasets and to show the resultant improvement in predictive accuracy and modelling efficiency. Although in this presentation, spm is applied to data in environmental sciences, it can be applied to data in other relevant disciplines. Presentation at the 2018 useR! conference
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- EARTH SCIENCES
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- spatial predictive modelling - spm
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- machine learning - ML
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- predictive accuracy
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useR! 2018 Conference, 10-13 July 2018 Brisbane, QLD
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Abstract presented at 2018 useR! conference
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