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  • Environmental Science
  • Statistics
  • Geospatial Analysis

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  • Evaluation metrics for prediction error in space-time data are poorly understood.
  • Independent replication is often absent, making standard evaluation procedures for independent data unsuitable for space-time prediction.
  • Air pollution data from California wildfires in 2008 highlights the need for robust spatial interpolation error metrics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To formalize the true prediction error for spatial interpolation.
  • To investigate various cross-validation (CV) procedures for estimating prediction error in space-time data.
  • To provide insights into data partitioning strategies for accurate error estimation.

Main Methods:

  • Employed simulations and case studies to analyze different cross-validation (CV) strategies.
  • Focused on spatial interpolation error estimation.
  • Evaluated the suitability of location-based CV procedures.

Main Results:

  • Location-based cross-validation is appropriate for estimating spatial interpolation error, as demonstrated with California wildfire air pollution data.
  • Commonly held beliefs regarding the bias-variance trade-off of CV fold size do not directly apply to dependent space-time data.
  • Leave-one-location-out (LOLO) CV emerged as the preferred metric for spatial interpolation prediction error.

Conclusions:

  • Established location-based cross-validation as a suitable method for spatial interpolation error assessment.
  • Highlighted the limitations of traditional CV approaches for dependent space-time data.
  • Recommended leave-one-location-out (LOLO) cross-validation for accurate prediction error metrics in spatial interpolation tasks.