This topic gives an introductory overview to the package PtProcess. Links are given to follow up topics where more detail can be found.
This package contains routines for the fitting of time dependent point process models, particularly marked processes with “jumps”. These models have particular application to earthquake data. A detailed theoretical background to these and other point process models can be found in Daley & Vere-Jones (2003, 2008). An overview of the package structure is given by Harte (2010).
The direction of the development of the package has been influenced by our research on the application of point process models to seismology. The package was originally written for S-PLUS, being part of the Statistical Seismology Library (Harte, 1998; Brownrigg & Harte, 2005). The package ptproc by Peng (2002, 2003) analyses multi-dimensional point process models, and the package spatstat by Baddeley et al (2005, 2005a, 2008) analyses spatial point processes.
The topic Changes lists recent changes made to the package. Version 3 of the package has some major changes from Version 2, and code for Version 2 will not work in Version 3 without modification. Some examples giving the old code and the required new code are given in the topic Changes. Changes made in Version 3 enable one to fit a more general class of model.
The classes of models currently fitted by the package are listed below. Each are defined within an object that contains the data, current parameter values, and other model characteristics.
is described under the topic mpp. This model can be simulated or fitted to data by defining the required model structure within an object of class "mpp".
is described under the topic linksrm. This model is slightly peculiar, and doesn't fit naturally in the mpp framework.
The main tasks performed by the package are listed below. These can be achieved by calling the appropriate generic function.
can be performed by the function simulate.
can be achieved by using the function neglogLik.
can be calculated with the function residuals.
can be extracted with the function summary.
can be calculated with the function logLik.
can be performed by the function plot.
The method function conforms to the following naming convention, for example, the function logLik.mpp provides the method to calculate the log-likelihood for mpp objects. The function code can be viewed by entering PtProcess:::logLik.mpp on the R command line.
If you want to modify such a function, dump the code to your local directory, modify in a text editor, then use source at the beginning of your program script, but after library(PtProcess). Your modified version will then be used in preference to the version in the PtProcess package.
anywhere in the manual are only listed within this topic.
topics summarising general structure are indexed under the keyword “documentation” in the Index.
The package is based on an S-PLUS package which was commenced at Victoria University of Wellington in 1996. Contributions and suggestions have been made by many, including: Mark Bebbington, Ray Brownrigg, Edwin Choi, Robert Davies, Michael Eglinton, Dongfeng Li, Li Ma, Alistair Merrifield, Andrew Tokeley, David Vere-Jones, Wenzheng Yang, Leon Young, Irina Zhdanova and Jiancang Zhuang.
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Baddeley, A. (2008). Open source software for spatial statistics. URL: http://spatstat.org/.
Baddeley, A. & Turner, R. (2005). Spatstat: an R package for analyzing spatial point patterns. Journal of Statistical Software 12(6), 1--42. 10.18637/jss.v012.i06
Baddeley, A.; Turner, R.; Moller, J. & Hazelton, M. (2005a). Residual analysis for spatial point processes (with discussion). J. R. Statist. Soc. B 67(5), 617--666. 10.1111/j.1467-9868.2005.00519.x
Bebbington, M.S. & Harte, D.S. (2001). On the statistics of the linked stress release model. Journal of Applied Probability 38A, 176--187. 10.1239/jap/1085496600
Bebbington, M.S. & Harte, D.S. (2003). The linked stress release model for spatio-temporal seismicity: formulations, procedures and applications. Geophysical Journal International 154, 925--946. 10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.02015.x
Brownrigg, R. & Harte, D.S. (2005). Using R for statistical seismology. R News 5(1), 31--35. URL: https://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-1.pdf.
Daley, D.J. & Vere-Jones, D. (2003). An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes. Volume I: Elementary Theory and Methods. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, New York. 10.1007/b97277
Daley, D.J. & Vere-Jones, D. (2008). An Introduction to the Theory of Point Processes. Volume II: General Theory and Structure. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag, New York. 10.1007/978-0-387-49835-5
Harte, D. (1998). Documentation for the Statistical Seismology Library. School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences Research Report No. 98--10 (Updated Edition June 1999), Victoria University of Wellington. (ISSN 1174--4545)
Harte, D. (2010). PtProcess: An R package for modelling marked point processes indexed by time. Journal of Statistical Software 35(8), 1--32. 10.18637/jss.v035.i08
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Peng, R. (2002). Multi-dimensional Point Process Models. Package “ptproc”, URL: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~rpeng/.
Peng, R. (2003). Multi-dimensional point process models in R. Journal of Statistical Software 8(16), 1--27. 10.18637/jss.v008.i16
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