Spatial models within gamlss

Description

This package provides a set of functions to facilitate the fitting of spatial models within GAMLSS. At the moment it allows only Random Markov Fiels (MRF) but other facilities will be added soon.

Details

Author(s)

Fernanda De Bastiani, Mikis Stasinopoulos, Robert Rigby and Vlasios Voudouris.

Maintainer: Fernanda <fernandadebastiani@gmail.com>

References

Rigby, R. A. and Stasinopoulos D. M. (2005). Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape,(with discussion), Appl. Statist., 54, part 3, pp 507-554.

Rue and Held (2005) Gaussian markov random fields: theory and applications, Chapman & Hall, USA.

Stasinopoulos D. M., Rigby R.A. and Akantziliotou C. (2006) Instructions on how to use the GAMLSS package in R. Accompanying documentation in the current GAMLSS help files, (see also http://www.gamlss.org/).

Stasinopoulos D. M. Rigby R.A. (2007) Generalized additive models for location scale and shape (GAMLSS) in R. Journal of Statistical Software, Vol. 23, Issue 7, Dec 2007, http://www.jstatsoft.org/v23/i07.

Examples

library(mgcv)
data(columb)
data(columb.polys)
m1 <- MRFA(columb$crime, columb$district, polys=columb.polys)
draw.polys(columb.polys, m1) 

Results