# spatial data

1. ### Specifying the initial values of likfit function of geodata in R

I have a geostatistical data. For analysis, I am using geoR. I want to estimate the parameters. But likfit or variofit function requires initial values for the covariance parameters: \sigma^2 (partial sill) and \phi (range parameter). But I can't guess the initial values for my data...
2. ### Is Sea Level Rise Data from NOAA an Areal Data?

I am working on sea level rise and I collected the data from NOAA. In the "meta", they describe the data is obtained by : Hourly : three-point Hanning filter centered on the hour Daily : 119-point convolution filter (Bloomfield, 1976) centered on noon applied to the hourly data with...
3. ### Spatial data with R

Hi, I am very new to all things related to spatial data and therefore I would be glad if you could give me some advice. I have the following problem: I have data about firms in several MSAs in the US that include longitude/lattitude coordinates of the firms. Now I want to download population...