Title: Lesson 4: Mini Project
Course: Basic (spatial) statistics > Section: Course Content

For this final lesson, you will work on an individual mini-project. However, you can start working on it from the beginning. You are expected to select any of the data uploaded on the EENSAT website for this.

Objectives:

The main objective is to give you the opportunity to undertake a concise but thorough piece of spatial statistical analysis and to write it up in a short report. This will allow you to implement the concepts and skills you have learnt in the first three lessons. By doing this, you reinforce and develop your understanding and technical competence.

Entrance requirements:

Followed the previous lesson of this course and conducted the exercises.

Notions to be grasped:

- The participant is able define a geostatistical problem
- The participant is elaborate all the necessary data preprocessing using R
- The participant is able to implement the geostatistical ideas independently in R

Learning activities:

- Study the all the lessons
- Undertake all exercises as described in the lesson material
- Use the knowledge gained to formulate a research problem, justification, objectives, and methods
- Apply the methods to analyze your data and the relevant results
- Interpret the results and discuss the implications of the results.

Tasks:

Execute the mini-project and submit the report in the LMS

Planned time frame for this lesson:

10 hours