A function to return the types of covariate interpolation
available
Usage
interptypes()
Arguments
Value
character string of available interpolation types
Details
The three types of interpolation method employed in the
package lgcp are:
'Majority' The
interpolated value corresponds to the value of the
covariate occupying the largest area of the computational
cell.
'ArealWeightedMean' The interpolated value
corresponds to the mean of all covariate values
contributing to the computational cell weighted by their
respective areas.
'ArealWeightedSum' The
interpolated value is the sum of all contributing
covariates weighed by the proportion of area with respect
to the covariate polygons. For example, suppose region A
has the same area as a computational grid cell and has 500
inhabitants. If that region occupies half of a
computational grid cell, then this interpolation type
assigns 250 inhabitants from A to the computational grid
cell.
