Multivariate Geostatistics#

The pygeostat.multivariate module includes multivariate geostatistics functions.

Multivariate Analysis#

pygeostat.multivariate.mds(data, variables=None)[source]#

Python implementation of the MDS coordinates calculated by the CCG program corrmat when set to ‘ordination’ mode.

MDS coordinates are calculate from the correlation matrix

See also

Deutsch, M. V, & Deutsch, C. V. (2013). A Program to Calculate and Display Correlation Matrices with Relevant Analysis. Edmonton AB. Retrieved from http://www.ccgalberta.com

Parameters:

data – Tidy (long-form) 2-D data where each column is a variable and each row is an observation. A pandas dataframe or numpy array may be passed.
variables (list) – Variables from the pd.DataFrame passed with data to calculate coordinates for

Returns:

The 3-D MDS coordinates calculated

Return type:

coords (pd.DataFrame)

Code author: pygeostat development team 2016-05-30