Spatial patterns and temporal trends of trace elements in mosses from 1990 to 2020 in Germany

Environmental Sciences Europe

Table 8 Goodness measures of the geostatistical models and the area estimates

Analyt	Nugget	Partial Sill	N/S	Moran’s I	p-value	ME	MSE	RMSSE	MPE	SR	MPEc	r_p
As	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.03	0.14	0	0.04	1.15	7.29	1.1	8	0.43
Cd	0.00	0.01	0.11	0.03	0.32	− 0.01	− 0.05	1.12	1.45	0.95	1.38	0.26
Cu	0.00	1.57	0.00	− 0.05	0.91	− 0.05	− 0.03	1.12	5.35	1	5.35	0.21
Ni	0.14	0.19	0.42	0.02	0.06	0.07	0.03	0.91	19.35	1.06	20.56	0.51
Pb	0.16	0.41	0.28	0.08	0.24	0.06	− 0.05	0.85	25.46	1.01	25.65	0.38
Sb	0.03	0.10	0.25	− 0.15	0.08	0	− 0.1	1.31	3.85	1.16	4.47	− 0.45

Nugget nugget, Partial Sill partial sill, N/S nugget/sill ratio, Moran’s I Moran coefficient, p-value error probability for the Moran coefficient, ME mean error [μg/g or % Tr.], MSE mean standardised error, RMSSE variance of the root-mean-square standardised error, MPE median percentage error [%], SR Range Ratio ratio of range cross-validation error to range measured values, MPEc MPE multiplied by the range ratio [%], rp Pearson’s correlation coefficient