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Large spatial data sets require innovative techniques for computationally efficient statistical estimation. In this comment some aspects of local predictor selection are explored, with a view towards spatially coherent field prediction and uncertainty quantification.

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Acknowledgments

I want to thank the editors for the invitation to comment, and Jonathan Bradley, Noel Cressie, and Tao Shi for producing a paper that it was well worth the effort on which to comment.

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This comment refers to the invited paper available at doi:10.1007/s11749-014-0415-1.

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Lindgren, F. Comments on: Comparing and selecting spatial predictors using local criteria. TEST 24, 35–44 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-014-0417-z

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