A statistical learning view of simple Kriging

Emilia Siviero (), Emilie Chautru () and Stephan Clémençon ()
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Emilia Siviero: Institut Polytechnique de Paris
Emilie Chautru: Mines ParisTech
Stephan Clémençon: Institut Polytechnique de Paris

TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, 2024, vol. 33, issue 1, No 16, 296 pages

Abstract: Abstract In the Big Data era, with the ubiquity of geolocation sensors in particular, massive datasets exhibiting a possibly complex spatial dependence structure are becoming increasingly available. In this context, the standard probabilistic theory of statistical learning does not apply directly and guarantees of the generalization capacity of predictive rules learned from such data are left to establish. We analyze here the simple Kriging task, the flagship problem in Geostatistics, from a statistical learning perspective, i.e., by carrying out a nonparametric finite-sample predictive analysis. Given $$d\ge 1$$ d ≥ 1 values taken by a realization of a square integrable random field $$X=\{X_s\}_{s\in S}$$ X = { X s } s ∈ S , $$S\subset {\mathbb {R}}^2$$ S ⊂ R 2 , with unknown covariance structure, at sites $$s_1,\; \ldots ,\; s_d$$ s 1 , … , s d in S, the goal is to predict the unknown values it takes at any other location $$s\in S$$ s ∈ S with minimum quadratic risk. The prediction rule being derived from a training spatial dataset: a single realization $$X'$$ X ′ of X, is independent from those to be predicted, observed at $$n\ge 1$$ n ≥ 1 locations $$\sigma _1,\; \ldots ,\; \sigma _n$$ σ 1 , … , σ n in S. Despite the connection of this minimization problem with kernel ridge regression, establishing the generalization capacity of empirical risk minimizers is far from straightforward, due to the non-independent and identically distributed nature of the training data $$X'_{\sigma _1},\; \ldots ,\; X'_{\sigma _n}$$ X σ 1 ′ , … , X σ n ′ involved in the learning procedure. In this article, non-asymptotic bounds of order $$O_{{\mathbb {P}}}(1/\sqrt{n})$$ O P ( 1 / n ) are proved for the excess risk of a plug-in predictive rule mimicking the true minimizer in the case of isotropic stationary Gaussian processes, observed at locations forming a regular grid in the learning stage. These theoretical results, as well as the role played by the technical conditions required to establish them, are illustrated by various numerical experiments, on simulated data and on real-world datasets, and hopefully pave the way for further developments in statistical learning based on spatial data.

Keywords: Geostatistics; Spatial analysis; Kriging; Nonparametric covariance estimation; Prediction; Random fields; 62M30; 68Q32; 62M20; 62G05; 62H11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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