Research Article

Applications of Robust Methods in Spatial Analysis

Table 3

-estimates of the model parameters; standard errors are in parentheses and RMSE for , and various combinations of , , and for the coal-ash study.

ScenariosabcRMSE

S10.940.00.20.310.84 (0.4725)−0.2347 (0.0492)0.0593 (0.0289)1.1484
S2112.340.00.0050.99.869 (0.3556)−0.1438 (0.0363)0.0652 (0.0215)1.2743
S30.940.30.20.310.662 (0.5085)−0.1593 (0.0520)0.0272 (0.0316)1.1368
S40.000700.920.00110.482 (0.4923)−0.1321 (0.0524)0.0173 (0.0318)1.1528
S512.48200.010.210.15 (0.4014)−0.1374 (0.0390)0.0534 (0.0243)1.1950