Two weighted compression schemes, Weighted Least Squares (wLS) and Weighted Principal Component Analysis (wPCA), are compared by considering their performance in minimizing both spectral and colorimetric errors of reconstructed reflectance spectra. A comparison is also made among seven different weighting functions incorporated into ordinary PCA/LS to give selectively more importance to the wav...

We derive a weighted least squares approximate restricted likelihood estimator for a kdimensional pth order autoregressive model with intercept, for which exact likelihood optimization is generally infeasible due to the parameter space which is complicated and highdimensional, involving pk2 parameters. The weighted least squares estimator has significantly reduced bias and mean squared error th...

Spatial relationship between vegetation and rainfall in Central Kazakhstan has been modelled using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and rainfall data from weather stations. The modelling based on application of two statistical approaches: conventional ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, and geographically weighted regression (GWR). The results support the assumption that the a...