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pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Census Tracts Network.

Description

A dataset representing the graph structure of 402 census tracts of Allegheny County, PA.

Usage

pittsburgh

Arguments

Format

A list with 4 elements:

  • sA A sparse matrix capturing the connections between spatially adjacent census tracts in Allegheny County.

  • xy A matrix indicating the spatial location of each census tract.

  • f Artificial signal with inhomogeneous smoothness across nodes and two sharp peaks near the center. This signal is formed using a mixture of five Gaussians in the underlying spatial coordinates.

  • y Noisy version of the signal.

References

Wang, Y. X., Sharpnack, J., Smola, A. J., & Tibshirani, R. J. (2016). Trend Filtering on Graphs. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 17, 1-41.