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 A considerable of time will be dedicated to project work allowing you to apply the skills you have learnt during the summer school.
 
-We encourage you to bring your own problem (e.g. something related to your own research) and try to build a small software package for that problem. Moreover, we will provide alternative problems to be solved.
+We encourage you to bring your own problem (e.g. something related to your own research) and try to build a small software package for that problem.
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+Moreover, we will provide alternative problems to be solved:
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+## Project: Analyzing Spatial Data
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+In this project, we propose to write a package that allows for the statistical analysis of spatially indexed data.
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+Before starting, you might look at an data example. To this end, download [TemperatureData.jld2](TemperatureData.jld2) and read this data via
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+``` julia
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+using JLD2 @load "TemperatureData.jld2" \## potentially correct your path
+```
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+This will give you data frames with information on weather stations in the Netherlands, summer temperature means (in $0.1^\circ\mathrm{C}$) and summer temperature maxima (in $0.1^\circ\mathrm{C}$). It is reasonable to assume that the temperature data are temporally independent. Furthermore, assuming a normal distribution at each station is quite common for this type of data.
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+A reasonable package could for instance contain functions to estimate means and standard deviations station-by-station, fit linear models for $\mu$ or $\log(\sigma)$ (with, e.g., geographic coordinates as covariates), or, provided that $\sigma$ is constant over space, a linear model for the data themselves (with repetitions.) \$