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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
<journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title></journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">1683-8602</issn><issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn><issn-l>1680-743X</issn-l>
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<publisher-name>School of Statistics, Renmin University of China</publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JDS1076</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/22-JDS1076</article-id>
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<subject>Statistical Data Science</subject></subj-group></article-categories>
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<article-title>The Second Competition on Spatial Statistics for Large Datasets</article-title>
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<name><surname>Abdulah</surname><given-names>Sameh</given-names></name><email xlink:href="mailto:sameh.abdulah@kaust.edu.sa">sameh.abdulah@kaust.edu.sa</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_001">1</xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1">∗</xref>
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<name><surname>Alamri</surname><given-names>Faten</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_002">2</xref>
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<name><surname>Nag</surname><given-names>Pratik</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_003">3</xref>
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<name><surname>Sun</surname><given-names>Ying</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_001">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_003">3</xref>
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<name><surname>Ltaief</surname><given-names>Hatem</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_001">1</xref>
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<name><surname>Keyes</surname><given-names>David E.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_001">1</xref>
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<name><surname>Genton</surname><given-names>Marc G.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_001">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_jds1076_aff_003">3</xref>
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<aff id="j_jds1076_aff_001"><label>1</label>Extreme Computing Research Center, <institution>King Abdullah University of Science and Technology</institution>, Thuwal 23955-6900, <country>Saudi Arabia</country></aff>
<aff id="j_jds1076_aff_002"><label>2</label>Mathematical Science Department, <institution>Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University</institution>, Riyadh 84428, <country>Saudi Arabia</country></aff>
<aff id="j_jds1076_aff_003"><label>3</label>Statistics Program, <institution>King Abdullah University of Science and Technology</institution>, Thuwal 23955-6900, <country>Saudi Arabia</country></aff>
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<corresp id="cor1"><label>∗</label>Corresponding author. Email: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="mailto:sameh.abdulah@kaust.edu.sa">sameh.abdulah@kaust.edu.sa</ext-link>.</corresp>
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<pub-date pub-type="ppub"><year>2022</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>8</day><month>11</month><year>2022</year></pub-date><volume>20</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>439</fpage><lpage>460</lpage><supplementary-material id="S1" content-type="document" xlink:href="jds1076_s001.pdf" mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf">
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<title>Supplementary Material</title>
<p>In the Supplementary Material, we list the members of all the teams participating in this competition in Table S1. Moreover, Tables S2 to S11 summarize the RMSE values obtained by different teams in each dataset of different sub-competitions, as well as those obtained with <italic>ExaGeoStat</italic> for reference purpose.</p>
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</supplementary-material><history><date date-type="received"><day>14</day><month>8</month><year>2022</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>29</day><month>10</month><year>2022</year></date></history>
<permissions><copyright-statement>2022 The Author(s). Published by the School of Statistics and the Center for Applied Statistics, Renmin University of China.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2022</copyright-year>
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<license-p>Open access article under the <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY</ext-link> license.</license-p></license></permissions>
<abstract>
<p>In the last few decades, the size of spatial and spatio-temporal datasets in many research areas has rapidly increased with the development of data collection technologies. As a result, classical statistical methods in spatial statistics are facing computational challenges. For example, the kriging predictor in geostatistics becomes prohibitive on traditional hardware architectures for large datasets as it requires high computing power and memory footprint when dealing with large dense matrix operations. Over the years, various approximation methods have been proposed to address such computational issues, however, the community lacks a holistic process to assess their approximation efficiency. To provide a fair assessment, in 2021, we organized the first competition on spatial statistics for large datasets, generated by our <italic>ExaGeoStat</italic> software, and asked participants to report the results of estimation and prediction. Thanks to its widely acknowledged success and at the request of many participants, we organized the second competition in 2022 focusing on predictions for more complex spatial and spatio-temporal processes, including univariate nonstationary spatial processes, univariate stationary space-time processes, and bivariate stationary spatial processes. In this paper, we describe in detail the data generation procedure and make the valuable datasets publicly available for a wider adoption. Then, we review the submitted methods from fourteen teams worldwide, analyze the competition outcomes, and assess the performance of each team.</p>
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<label>Keywords</label>
<kwd>Gaussian process</kwd>
<kwd>multivariate</kwd>
<kwd>nonstationary</kwd>
<kwd>prediction</kwd>
<kwd>space-time</kwd>
<kwd>spatial</kwd>
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<funding-group><award-group><funding-source xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004052">King Abdullah University of Science and Technology</funding-source></award-group><funding-statement>The research in this manuscript was funded by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. We want to thank the Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL) at KAUST (<uri>https://www.hpc.kaust.edu.sa/</uri>) for supporting this research by providing the hardware resources, including the Shaheen-II Cray XC40 supercomputer used to generate the datasets in this competition.</funding-statement></funding-group>
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