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Performing declustering to adjust for preferential sampling

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There are two ways to decluster your data: by the cell method and by Voronoi polygons. Samples
should be taken so they are representative of the entire surface. However, many times, the
samples are taken where the concentration is most severe, thus skewing the view of the surface.
Declustering accounts for skewed representation of the samples by weighting them appropriately
so that a more accurate surface can be created.
Learn more about declustering
Steps:
1. Choose Kriging/CoKriging, select a dataset and field, then click Next.
2. Choose either Probability, Disjunctive, or Simple as the kriging type; set
Transformation type to Normal Score and the Decluster before transformation
parameter to True; then click Next.
3. Click Next on the following dialog box.
4. Click the tabs to toggle between the Cell size, Anisotropy, and Angle charts.
5. Change Cell size , Anisotropy, Angle, and Shift to find the minimum in the graph.
Alternatively, click the Declustering method arrow and choose Polygonal to switch to a
polygon declustering display.
6. Click Next.
7. Choose a method type from the Approximation Method drop-down menu, set Number
of bins, then click either the Density or Cumulative tab on the Normal Score
Transformation dialog box.
8. Click Next.
9. Specify the desired parameters on the Semivariogram/Covariance Modeling dialog box
and click Next.
10. Specify the desired parameters on the Searching Neighborhood dialog box and click
Next.
11. Examine the results on the Cross Validation dialog box and click Finish.
12. Click OK on the Method Report dialog box.

Tip: Declustering is only used when you choose normal score

transformation as the transformation type. Choose Probability,
Simple, or Disjunctive as the kriging method to access the Normal
Score option.

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