lgcp (version 1.8)

spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame: spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame function

Description

Creates a spatialAtRisk object from a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object.

Usage

# S3 method for SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
spatialAtRisk(X, ...)

Arguments

X

a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object; one column of the data frame should have name "atrisk", containing the aggregate population at risk for that region

...

additional arguments

Value

object of class spatialAtRisk

1. Brix A, Diggle PJ (2001). Spatiotemporal Prediction for log-Gaussian Cox processes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 63(4), 823-841.

2. Diggle P, Rowlingson B, Su T (2005). Point Process Methodology for On-line Spatio-temporal Disease Surveillance. Environmetrics, 16(5), 423-434.

See Also

lgcpPredict, linklgcpSim, spatialAtRisk.default, spatialAtRisk.fromXYZ, spatialAtRisk.im, spatialAtRisk.function, spatialAtRisk.SpatialGridDataFrame, spatialAtRisk.bivden