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carvar is the CAR covariance sigma2 (I - rho W)^-1 diag(m), carjac the log-likelihood Jacobian term 0.5 log|I - rho W|, carsim draws x = L'^-1 z from the precision (I - rho W)/sigma2 = L L' with Philox normals (stream k of seed for draw k), cargmm the moment (conditional least squares) estimator e'We / e'W^2 e of rho, caricar the intrinsic CAR log-density with the generalised determinant of D - W, carres Moran's I of CAR residuals (randomisation moments), and carbym the REML variance components of the Gaussian Besag-York-Mollie model y = mu + u + v (ICAR u, iid v), solved by bisection on the profile score of the spatial share phi.

Usage

carvar(W, rho, sigma2, m = NULL)

carjac(W, rho)

carsim(W, rho, sigma2, nsim = 9, seed = 0)

cargmm(y, W, X = NULL)

caricar(phi, W, tau = 1, tol = 1e-09)

carres(resid, W, alternative = "greater")

carbym(y, W, tol = 1e-09)

Arguments

W

Spatial weights (symmetric adjacency for carsim, caricar, carbym).

rho

CAR autocorrelation parameter.

sigma2

Conditional variance scale.

m

Optional vector of conditional variance multipliers.

nsim

Number of simulated fields.

seed

Philox seed.

y

Numeric response.

X

Optional regressor matrix (intercept only when NULL).

phi

Field values for the ICAR density.

tau

ICAR precision.

tol

Relative eigenvalue threshold for the null space.

resid

Residual vector.

alternative

Alternative hypothesis for the Moran test.

Value

carvar a list with covariance, marginal_variance and mean_marginal_variance; carjac, cargmm, caricar and carres lists with statistic; carsim a list with the draws matrix (one row per draw); carbym a list with sigma2_spatial, sigma2_unstructured, phi, mu and reml_loglik.

References

Besag, J. (1974). Spatial interaction and the statistical analysis of lattice systems. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society B 36, 192-236. Besag, J., York, J. and Mollie, A. (1991). Bayesian image restoration, with two applications in spatial statistics. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 43, 1-20. Rue, H. and Held, L. (2005). Gaussian Markov Random Fields. Chapman and Hall/CRC. Haining, R. (1990). Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences. Cambridge University Press.

Examples

W <- rbind(c(0, 1, 0), c(1, 0, 1), c(0, 1, 0))
carvar(W, 0.4, 2)$covariance
#>           [,1]     [,2]      [,3]
#> [1,] 2.4705882 1.176471 0.4705882
#> [2,] 1.1764706 2.941176 1.1764706
#> [3,] 0.4705882 1.176471 2.4705882
carjac(W, 0.4)$statistic
#> [1] -0.1928312
caricar(c(0.5, -0.2, -0.3), W)$statistic
#> [1] -1.538571