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Geostatistical prediction through convex combination of Archimedean copulas Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 B. Sohrabian
A common problem in geostatistics is to interpolate a variable at unsampled locations using available data. Kriging has been the conventional method of solving this problem by providing the weighted average of samples, which is determined by minimizing the estimation variance. Kriging variance is a function of the samples’ spatial configuration and the variable’s spatial dependence structure. The latter
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Testing for complete spatial randomness on three dimensional bounded convex shapes Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-04 Scott Ward; Edward A.K. Cohen; Niall Adams
There is currently a gap in theory for point patterns that lie on the surface of objects, with researchers focusing on patterns that lie in a Euclidean space, typically planar and spatial data. Methodology for planar and spatial data thus relies on Euclidean geometry and is therefore inappropriate for analysis of point patterns observed in non-Euclidean spaces. Recently, there has been extensions to
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Directional spatial autoregressive dependence in the conditional first- and second-order moments Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Miryam S. Merk; Philipp Otto
In contrast to classical econometric approaches which are based on prespecified isotropic weighting schemes, we suggest that the spatial weighting matrix in the presence of directional dependencies should be estimated. We identify this direction based on different candidate neighbourhood sets. In this paper, we consider two different types of processes – namely spatial autoregressive and spatial autoregressive
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Analysis of epidemiologic study data when there is geolocation uncertainty Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 Bryan Langholz; Loraine A. Escobedo; Daniel W. Goldberg; Julia E. Heck; Laura K. Thompson; Beate Ritz; Myles Cockburn
Geolocation uncertainty is common in epidemiological studies that depend on addresses to determine exposure. We developed a spatial construct and statistical framework by which to characterize geolocation uncertainty, develop analysis methods, and compare those methods. Exposure is represented by a three-dimensional step function over the partitioned spatial surface and a person’s geolocation boundary
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Conditional modelling of spatio-temporal extremes for Red Sea surface temperatures Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Emma S. Simpson; Jennifer L. Wadsworth
Recent extreme value theory literature has seen significant emphasis on the modelling of spatial extremes, with comparatively little consideration of spatio-temporal extensions. This neglects an important feature of extreme events: their evolution over time. Many existing models for the spatial case are limited by the number of locations they can handle; this impedes extension to space–time settings
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Filtering spatial point patterns using kernel densities Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Brian E. Vestal; Nichole E. Carlson; Debashis Ghosh
Understanding spatial inhomogeneity and clustering in point patterns arises in many contexts, ranging from disease outbreak monitoring to analyzing radiologically-based emphysema in biomedical images. This can often involve classifying individual points as being part of a feature/cluster or as being part of a background noise process. Existing methods for this task can struggle when there are differences
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Demography and Crime: A Spatial analysis of geographical patterns and risk factors of Crimes in Nigeria Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 Rasheed A. Adeyemi; James Mayaki; Temesgen T. Zewotir; Shaun Ramroop
This paper explores the spatial distribution of crime incidences in Nigeria and evaluates the association between the geographical variations and the socio-demographic determinants of crimes. The analyses are based on 2017 reported crime Statistics obtained from the Nigeria‘s National Bureau of Statistics. This paper analysed the spatial patterns of four types of crimes (armed robbery, theft, rape
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Identification of dominant features in spatial data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Roman Flury; Florian Gerber; Bernhard Schmid; Reinhard Furrer
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Influence diagnostics on a reparameterized t-Student spatial linear model Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Miguel Angel Uribe-Opazo; Fernanda De Bastiani; Manuel Galea; Rosangela Carline Schemmer; Rosangela Aparecida Botinha Assumpção
In this paper, we consider a spatial linear model under the multivariate Student’s t-distribution with finite second moment. This distribution, which contains the normal distribution, offers a more flexible framework for modelling spatial data. We use a reparameterized version of the multivariate Student’s t-distribution, so that the scale matrix corresponds to the covariance matrix of the spatial
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Maximum likelihood estimation of spatially varying coefficient models for large data with an application to real estate price prediction Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-11-10 Jakob A. Dambon; Fabio Sigrist; Reinhard Furrer
In regression models for spatial data, it is often assumed that the marginal effects of covariates on the response are constant over space. In practice, this assumption might often be questionable. In this article, we show how a Gaussian process-based spatially varying coefficient (SVC) model can be estimated using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). In addition, we present an approach that scales
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Model-assisted estimation of forest attributes exploiting remote sensing information to handle spatial under-coverage Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-31 Sara Franceschi; Gherardo Chirici; Lorenzo Fattorini; Francesca Giannetti; Piermaria Corona
Model-assisted estimation of forest wood volume is approached exploiting the wall-to-wall information available from satellite data and partial information achieved from airborne laser scanning (ALS) covering a portion of the survey area. If the portion covered by ALS is selected by a probabilistic sampling scheme, two-phase estimators are considered in which the two sources of information are exploited
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Population-weighted exposure to air pollution and COVID-19 incidence in Germany Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Guowen Huang; Patrick E. Brown
Many countries have enforced social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19. Within countries, although the measures taken by governments are similar, the incidence rate varies among areas (e.g., counties, cities). One potential explanation is that people in some areas are more vulnerable to the coronavirus disease because of their worsened health conditions caused by long-term exposure to poor air
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Dynamic multiscale spatiotemporal models for multivariate Gaussian data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Mohamed Elkhouly; Marco A.R. Ferreira
We propose a novel class of multiscale spatiotemporal models for multivariate Gaussian data. First, we decompose the multivariate data and the underlying latent process with a novel multivariate multiscale decomposition. This decomposition results in multiscale coefficient matrices with elements that are multiscale approximations of spatial directional derivatives. We then assume that the associated
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A multi-site stochastic weather generator for high-frequency precipitation using censored skew-symmetric distribution Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Yuxiao Li; Ying Sun
Stochastic weather generators (SWGs) are digital twins of complex weather processes and widely used in agriculture and urban design. Due to improved measuring instruments, an accurate SWG for high-frequency precipitation is now possible. However, high-frequency precipitation data are more zero-inflated, skewed, and heavy-tailed than common (hourly or daily) precipitation data. Therefore, classical
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A mixed sampling strategy for partially geo-referenced finite populations Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Maria Michela Dickson; Flavio Santi; Emanuele Taufer; Giuseppe Espa
In the last few decades, sampling theory has been given a substantial boost by the growing availability of geo-referenced finite populations. Unfortunately, geo-referentiation is often incomplete or affected by locational errors for a portion of the units. Spatial sampling methods produce efficient estimates but suffer from consequences of flaws in geo-referentiation. This paper proposes a mixed sampling
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Distribution-free regression model selection with a nested spatial correlation structure Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Chung-Wei Shen; Yi-Hau Chen; Chun-Shu Chen
In spatial regression analysis, a suitable specification of the mean regression model is crucial for unbiased analysis. Also, to enhance statistical efficiency of the mean regression analysis, we need to suitably account for the underlying spatial correlation structure. In this paper, we focus on selection of an appropriate mean model in spatial regression analysis under a general anisotropic nested
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Modelling spine locations on dendrite trees using inhomogeneous Cox point processes Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Heidi S. Christensen; Jesper Møller
Dendritic spines, which are small protrusions on the dendrites of a neuron, are of interest in neuroscience as they are related to cognitive processes such as learning and memory. We analyse the distribution of spine locations on six different dendrite trees from mouse neurons using point process theory for linear networks. Besides some possible small-scale repulsion, we find that two of the spine
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Parametric families for complex valued covariance functions: Some results, an overview and critical aspects Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-10-03 Donato Posa
Complex valued random fields, a natural generalization of real valued random fields, represent a powerful tool for modeling phenomena which evolve in time, spatial vectorial data in two dimensions and spatio-temporal vectorial data (i.e., a wind field). However, only a few efforts have been proposed in the literature to address some relevant aspects of spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical analysis
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Large-scale modelling and forecasting of ambulance calls in northern Sweden using spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox processes Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Fekadu L. Bayisa; Markus Ådahl; Patrik Rydén; Ottmar Cronie
Although ambulance call data typically come in the form of spatio-temporal point patterns, point process-based modelling approaches presented in the literature are scarce. In this paper, we study a unique set of Swedish spatio-temporal ambulance call data, which consist of the spatial (GPS) locations of the calls (within the four northernmost regions of Sweden) and the associated days of occurrence
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Optimally weighted L2 distances for spatially dependent functional data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Elvira Romano; Andrea Diana; Claire Miller; Ruth O’Donnell
In recent years, in many application fields, extracting information from data in the form of functions is of most interest rather than investigating traditional multivariate vectors. Often these functions have complex spatial dependences that need to be accounted for using appropriate statistical analysis. Spatial Functional Statistics presents a fruitful analytics framework for this analysis. The
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Random tessellations marked with crystallographic orientations Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-09-05 Zbyněk Pawlas, Iva Karafiátová, Luděk Heller
We consider a random marked tessellation in which the marks are crystal lattice orientations. A natural task is to construct a statistical test to decide whether the orientations are independently assigned to the cells of the underlying tessellation. The distribution of a given orientation is either identical for all cells or may depend on the corresponding cell. For both cases, non-parametric tests
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Introduction to the special issue Towards Spatial Data Science Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-08-13 Jorge Mateu; Alfred Stein
This is the editorial letter for the Special Issue dedicated to the conference Spatial Statistics 2019 Towards Spatial Data Science held in Sitges (Spain) from July 10 to 13, 2019. This fifth international conference on Spatial Statistics was run under the theme Towards Spatial Data Science with the aim to honour the emerging field of Data Science with a focus on spatial and spatio-temporal methods
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Multiresolution spatial generalized linear mixed model for integrating multi-fidelity spatial count data without common identifiers between data sources Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Sungil Kim, Rong Duan, Guang-Qin Ma, Heeyoung Kim
A motivating example for this paper is a large human location information system that collects two types of information on mobile device locations: 1) large amounts of low-accuracy cell tower triangulation (CTT) calculated location data and 2) small amounts of high-accuracy assisted global positioning system (AGPS) pinpointed location data. Integrating the CTT and AGPS data and extracting more complete
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Spatio-temporal modeling of an environmental trivariate vector combining air and soil measurements from Ireland Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 C. Cappello; S. De Iaco; M. Palma; D. Pellegrino
In environmental sciences, it is very common to observe spatio-temporal multiple data concerning several correlated variables which are measured in time over a monitored spatial domain. In multivariate Geostatistics, the evaluation of their behavior is often based on the knowledge of the spatio-temporal multivariate covariance structure. Since this last is often unknown it has to be estimated and modeled
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Spatiotemporal multi-resolution approximations for analyzing global environmental data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-08 Marius Appel, Edzer Pebesma
Technological developments and open data policies have made large, global environmental datasets accessible to everyone. For analyzing such datasets, including spatiotemporal correlations using traditional models based on Gaussian processes does not scale with data volume and requires strong assumptions about stationarity, separability, and distance measures of covariance functions that are often unrealistic
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Discovering significant situational profiles of crime occurrence by modeling complex spatial interactions Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-06 Zhanjun He, Zhong Xie, Liang Wu, Liufeng Tao
The joint influence of different facilities plays an important role in understanding situational profiles of crime incidents. While spatial conjunctive analysis of case configurations (CACC) is widely used to explore situational profiles of crime, complex spatial interactions (e.g., spatial autocorrelation of crime incidents, spatial interactions among multiple facilities) have not been fully considered
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Minimum temperature mapping with spatial copula interpolation Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-04 P. Bostan; A. Stein; F. Alidoost; F. Osei
Monitoring of variables like temperature, precipitation, and air quality is performed to determine their current situation, exhibit the presence of trends and occurrence of outliers. These variables are measured at specific locations and to obtain a full estimation map, we need to predict values at unknown locations. This study focuses on making a minimum air temperature map using copula interpolation
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Information and complexity analysis of spatial data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-03 José M. Angulo; Francisco J. Esquivel; Ana E. Madrid; Francisco J. Alonso
Information Theory provides a fundamental basis for analysis, and for a variety of subsequent methodological approaches, in relation to uncertainty quantification. The transversal character of concepts and derived results justifies its omnipresence in scientific research, in almost every area of knowledge, particularly in Physics, Communications, Geosciences, Life Sciences, etc. Information-theoretic
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Mapping road traffic crash hotspots using GIS-based methods: A case study of Muscat Governorate in the Sultanate of Oman Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Amira K. Al-Aamri; Graeme Hornby; Li-Chun Zhang; Abdullah A. Al-Maniri; Sabu S. Padmadas
Objective: Road traffic crashes (RTCs) are a major global public health problem and cause substantial burden on national economy and healthcare. There is little systematic understanding of the geography of RTCs and the spatial correlations of RTCs in the Middle-East region, particularly in Oman where RTCs are the leading cause of disability-adjusted life years lost. The overarching goal of this paper
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Modeling of spatio-temporally clustered survival HIV/AIDS data in the presence of competing risks setting Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-06-26 Somayeh Momenyan, Jalal Poorolajal
In some applications, clustered survival data are arranged spatio-temporally such as geographical regions over multiple time periods. Incorporating spatio-temporal variation in these data not only can improve the accuracy and efficiency of parameter estimation, but it also investigates spatial pattern of survivorship over the study period for identifying high-risk areas. Competing risks in survival
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Using multiple linear regression and random forests to identify spatial poverty determinants in rural China Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Mengxiao Liu; Shan Hu; Yong Ge; Gerard B.M. Heuvelink; Zhoupeng Ren; Xiaoran Huang
Identifying poverty determinants in a region is crucial for taking effective poverty reduction measures. This paper utilizes two variable importance analysis methods to identify the relative importance of different geographic factors to explain the spatial distribution of poverty: the Lindeman, Merenda, and Gold (LMG) method used in multiple linear regression (MLR) and variable importance used in random
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Second order analysis of geometric anisotropic point processes revisited Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-06-25 M. Sormani, C. Redenbach, A. Särkkä, T. Rajala
Various methods for directional analysis of spatial point patterns have been introduced in the literature. In this paper, we formulate a unifying framework for methods based on integral transforms of the second order product density. Examples include directional versions of Ripley’s K-function, wavelet transforms, and spectral analysis. Furthermore, we propose an additional method based on the projection
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Kernel mean embedding based hypothesis tests for comparing spatial point patterns Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-06-20 Raif M. Rustamov, James T. Klosowski
This paper introduces an approach for detecting differences in the first-order structures of spatial point patterns. The proposed approach leverages the kernel mean embedding in a novel way by introducing its approximate version tailored to spatial point processes. While the original embedding is infinite-dimensional and implicit, our approximate embedding is finite-dimensional and comes with explicit
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Introducing covariate dependent weighting matrices in fitting autoregressive models and measuring spatio-environmental autocorrelation Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-29 Bedilu Alamirie Ejigu, Eshetu Wencheko
In lattice type of spatial data analysis, the choice of spatial weighting matrices is a main component of any spatial autocorrelation measures and spatial autoregressive models because the choice assumes priori structures of spatial dependency. Typically, weighting matrices are constructed based on the concept of spatial proximity or geographical distance-based functions. However, depending on the
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Use of fractals to measure anisotropy in point patterns extracted with the DPT of an image Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-26 I. Fabris-Rotelli; A. Stein
Images are particular and well–known instances of spatial big data. Typically spatial data are scale specific and in this paper, we propose mechanisms to effectively address issues of scale in the analysis of images. We focus on spatial data extracted from images using the Discrete Pulse Transform (DPT). The DPT extracts discrete pulses from images at multiple scales that are recognisable as connected
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Families of covariance functions for bivariate random fields on spheres Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-22 Moreno Bevilacqua; Peter Diggle; Emilio Porcu
This paper proposes a new class of covariance functions for bivariate random fields on spheres, having the same properties as the bivariate Matérn model proposed in Euclidean spaces. The new class depends on the geodesic distance on a sphere; it allows for indexing differentiability (in the mean square sense) and fractal dimensions of the components of any bivariate Gaussian random field having such
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On the measurement of bias in geographically weighted regression models Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-22 Hanchen Yu, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Ziqi Li, Taylor Oshan, Levi John Wolf
Under the realization that Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) is a data-borrowing technique, this paper derives expressions for the amount of bias introduced to local parameter estimates by borrowing data from locations where the processes might be different from those at the regression location. This is done for both GWR and Multiscale GWR (MGWR). We demonstrate the accuracy of our expressions
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Projections of determinantal point processes Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-21 Adrien Mazoyer, Jean-François Coeurjolly, Pierre-Olivier Amblard
Let x={x(1),…,x(n)} be a space filling-design of n points defined in 0,1d. In computer experiments, an important property seek for x is a nice coverage of 0,1d. This property could be desirable as well as for any projection of x onto 0,1ι for ι
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Collective spectral density estimation and clustering for spatially-correlated data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-16 Tianbo Chen, Ying Sun, Mehdi Maadooliat
In this paper, we develop a method for estimating and clustering two-dimensional spectral density functions (2D-SDFs) for spatial data from multiple subregions. We use a common set of adaptive basis functions to explain the similarities among the 2D-SDFs in a low-dimensional space and estimate the basis coefficients by maximizing the Whittle likelihood with two penalties. We apply these penalties to
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Bayesian estimation of spatial filters with Moran’s eigenvectors and hierarchical shrinkage priors Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-11 Connor Donegan, Yongwan Chun, Amy E. Hughes
This paper proposes a Bayesian method for spatial regression using eigenvector spatial filtering (ESF) and Piironen and Vehtari (2017)’s regularized horseshoe (RHS) prior. ESF models are most often estimated using variable selection procedures such as stepwise selection, but in the absence of a Bayesian model averaging procedure variable selection methods cannot properly account for parameter uncertainty
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Deformed SPDE models with an application to spatial modeling of significant wave height Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Anders Hildeman; David Bolin; Igor Rychlik
A non-stationary Gaussian random field model is developed based on a combination of the stochastic partial differential equation (SPDE) approach and the classical deformation method. With the deformation method, a stationary field is defined on a domain which is deformed so that the field becomes non-stationary. We show that if the stationary field is a Matérn field defined as a solution to a fractional
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Time varying complex covariance functions for oceanographic data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-28 C. Cappello; S. De Iaco; S. Maggio; D. Posa
In Geostatistics, vector data with two components, such as measures for wind field, electromagnetic field and ocean currents can be appropriately modeled by recalling the theory of complex-valued random fields. This is especially suitable for describing phenomena whose variables are expressed in the same unit of measurement and refer to homogeneous quantities. In this paper, a first approach useful
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Accounting for spatial varying sampling effort due to accessibility in Citizen Science data: A case study of moose in Norway Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-18 Jorge Sicacha-Parada; Ingelin Steinsland; Benjamin Cretois; Jan Borgelt
Citizen Scientists together with an increasing access to technology provide large datasets that can be used to study e.g. ecology and biodiversity. Unknown and varying sampling effort is a major issue when making inference based on citizen science data. In this paper we propose a modeling approach for accounting for variation in sampling effort due to accessibility. The paper is based on an illustrative
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Prediction of intensity and location of seismic events using deep learning Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-14 Orietta Nicolis; Francisco Plaza
The object of this work is to predict the seismic rate in Chile by using two Deep Neural Network (DNN) architectures, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). For this, we propose a methodology based on a three-module approach: a pre-processing module, a spatial and temporal estimation module, and a prediction module. The first module considers the Epidemic-Type Aftershock
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Heteroskedastic geographically weighted regression model for functional data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 E. Romano, J. Mateu, O. Butzbach
A large number of approaches for modelling spatially dependent functional variables often assume that the functional regression coefficients are constant over the region of interest. However, in many occasions it is far more realistic that functional coefficients vary at a local level. The present paper proposes a calibrated heteroskedastic geographically weighted regression model (H-GWR) in the functional
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Semi-parametric resampling with extremes Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-13 Thomas Opitz; Denis Allard; Grégoire Mariethoz
Nonparametric resampling methods such as Direct Sampling are powerful tools to simulate new datasets preserving important data features such as spatial patterns from observed datasets while using only minimal assumptions. However, such methods cannot generate extreme events beyond the observed range of data values. We here propose using tools from extreme value theory for stochastic processes to extrapolate
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Analyzing car thefts and recoveries with connections to modeling origin–destination point patterns Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Shinichiro Shirota, Alan. E. Gelfand, Jorge Mateu
For a given region, we have a dataset composed of car theft locations along with a linked dataset of recovery locations which, due to partial recovery, is a relatively small subset of the set of theft locations. For an investigator seeking to understand the behavior of car thefts and recoveries in the region, several questions are addressed. Viewing the set of theft locations as a point pattern, can
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Determining the spatial effects of COVID-19 using the spatial panel data model. Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-07 Hasraddin Guliyev
This study investigates the propagation power and effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in light of published data. We examine the factors affecting COVID-19 together with the spatial effects, and use spatial panel data models to determine the relationship among the variables including their spatial effects. Using spatial panel models, we analyse the relationship between confirmed cases
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Sequential process to choose efficient sampling design based on partial prior information data and simulations Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-06 Claire Kermorvant, Sébastien Coube, Frank D’amico, Noëlle Bru, Nathalie Caill-Milly
Issues on sampling procedure definition led numerous study results to be biased and object of controversy. Choosing relevant sampling design and number of samples is a difficult task when wanted to set up or optimize a survey. The survey design choice is very important to avoid bias and increase the survey cost-efficiency. It can have a strong effect on the sample size needed to achieve some targeted
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Identifying spatial patterns with the Bootstrap ClustGeo technique Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-04-03 Veronica Distefano, Valentina Mameli, Irene Poli
Building clusters for pattern recognition and analysis of geographical areas can be a useful way to provide relevant information for economic and social decisions. In this paper, we introduce a novel spatial clustering technique, called Bootstrap ClustGeo (BCG), which is a hierarchical approach, based on bootstrap techniques with spatial constraints. We evaluate the performance of the proposed approach
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Developments in statistical inference when assessing spatiotemporal disease clustering with the tau statistic Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 Timothy M. Pollington; Michael J. Tildesley; T. Déirdre Hollingsworth; Lloyd A.C. Chapman
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Nonparametric spatiotemporal analysis of violent crime. A case study in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-13 I. Fuentes-Santos; W. González-Manteiga; J.P. Zubelli
This paper analyzes the spatiotemporal pattern of gunfire reports collected by the collaborative mobile app Fogo Cruzado in the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area (Brazil). We apply nonparametric first and second-order inference tools to characterize gunfire behavior, and test whether gunfire patterns meet the assumptions of crime prediction models, such as kernel hotspot maps or self-exciting point
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Mapping occupational health risk factors in the primary sector—A novel supervised machine learning and Area-to-Point Poisson kriging approach Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-07 S. Gerassis; C. Boente; M.T.D. Albuquerque; M.M. Ribeiro; A. Abad; J. Taboada
Workers around the world spend nearly a quarter of their time at work Occupational health is gaining great importance due to the profound impact on people long term health. The health status of the primary sector workforce is a great unknown for medical geography where health maps and spatial patterns have not been able to explain years of changing disease rates. This article proposes a new approach
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Edge correction for intensity estimation of 3D heterogeneous point processes from replicated data Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-05 J. Burguet, P. Andrey
A common task in the analysis of point patterns is to estimate the intensity of the underlying process, i.e., the expected number of points per unit area or volume at each position over space. In biological studies, a specific feature of point patterns and processes is their confinement within bounded domains of Rd because of the organization of biological systems into various compartments (tissues
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Analysing point patterns on networks — A review Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-05 Adrian Baddeley; Gopalan Nair; Suman Rakshit; Greg McSwiggan; Tilman M. Davies
We review recent research on statistical methods for analysing spatial patterns of points on a network of lines, such as road accident locations along a road network. Due to geometrical complexities, the analysis of such data is extremely challenging, and we describe several common methodological errors. The intrinsic lack of homogeneity in a network militates against the traditional methods of spatial
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Testing global and local dependence of point patterns on covariates in parametric models Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-03-03 Mari Myllymäki; Mikko Kuronen; Tomáš Mrkvička
Testing for a covariate effect in a parametric point process model is usually done through the Wald test, which relies on an asymptotic null distribution of the test statistic. We propose a Monte Carlo version of the test that also allows local investigation of the covariate effect in the globally fitted model. Two different test statistics are suggested for this purpose: the first, a spatial statistic
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Modeling big spatio-temporal geo-hazards data for forecasting by error-correction cointegration and dimension-reduction Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-02-29 Hong Wang, Guoqi Qian, Antoinette Tordesillas
We develop a new stochastic spatio-temporal cointegration (SSTC) framework to model spatial and temporal dependence dynamics in high-dimensional non-stationary spatio-temporal data of geological hazards. Such data, often collected from real-time remote sensing, are common in complex geophysical systems such as landslides, earthquakes and volcano eruptions. Our framework employs cointegrated vector
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Zero-inflated Bell scan: A more flexible spatial scan statistic Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-02-29 Ali Abolhassani, Marcos O. Prates, Fredy Castellares, Safieh Mahmoodi
Spatial scan statistic has been widely employed in spatial disease surveillance and spatial cluster detection. However, the over-dispersion and excess of zeros are often presented in real-world data, causing not only the violation of likelihood assumption for the Poisson model, but also excessive Type I error or false alarms. In this paper, we propose the Bell scan and the zero-inflated Bell scan statistics
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Point-process based Bayesian modeling of space–time structures of forest fire occurrences in Mediterranean France Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-02-29 Thomas Opitz; Florent Bonneu; Edith Gabriel
Due to climate change and human activity, wildfires are expected to become more frequent and extreme worldwide, causing economic and ecological disasters. The deployment of preventive measures and operational forecasts can be aided by stochastic modeling that helps to understand and quantify the mechanisms governing the occurrence intensity. We here develop a point process framework for wildfire ignition
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Understanding the effects of dichotomization of continuous outcomes on geostatistical inference Spat. Stat. (IF 1.656) Pub Date : 2020-02-28 Irene Kyomuhangi; Tarekegn A. Abeku; Matthew J. Kirby; Gezahegn Tesfaye; Emanuele Giorgi
Diagnosis is often based on the exceedance or not of continuous health indicators of a predefined cut-off value, so as to classify patients into positives and negatives for the disease under investigation. In this paper, we investigate the effects of dichotomization of spatially-referenced continuous outcome variables on geostatistical inference. Although this issue has been extensively studied in
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