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

Nicholas Lewin-Koh nikko at hailmail.net
Tue Aug 17 14:15:03 CEST 2004


Hi,
If I am not mistaken does'nt Kelly Pace have some code on his website
for fitting car models, also Jim le Sage's Spatial econometric tool box
has functions
that shouldn't be too hard to port from matlab using SparseM.


Nicholas
 
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> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:48:03 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] CAR spatial model functions?
> To: Brian Aukema <aukema at entomology.wisc.edu>
> Cc: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
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> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Brian Aukema wrote:
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> > 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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> > Victoria, British Columbia
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> > 
> > 
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