[R-sig-Geo] CAR spatial model functions?

[Roger Bivand]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Brian Aukema wrote:

> At 15 Aug 2004 14:43:35 +0200 (CEST), Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> 
>  > There was a question (as the original questioner noted) on the list some 
> months ago
>  > about CAR by ML (essentially doing what S-Plus SpatialStats does)? Is 
> this a general
>  > need? Should spdep do it (I've kept away from it because spdep was not 
> intended to
>  > duplicate things already available in some implementation of S, rather 
> to complement)?
>  > Has anybody any code that could be polished?
> 
> Thanks to the list for the suggestions to implement CAR models with 
> WinBUGS.  I would
> love to see spdep include implementations of CAR via ML in the future, even 
> though S-Plus
> has similar capabilities.  R has a much better price, especially when being 
> used as a
> teaching tool.

Does anyone have a well-documented data set and weights matrix for which 
authoritative results of CAR estimation exist - preferably for a single 
spatial parameter - that they would be willing to make available for 
trying this out?

Roger

> 
> Brian Aukema
> 
> 
> Brian Aukema, PhD
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