The argument object
must be a fitted point process model
(object of class "ppm"
). Such objects are produced by the
model-fitting algorithm ppm
). This function evaluates the conditional intensity
$\hat\lambda(u, x)$
or spatial trend $\hat b(u)$ of the fitted point process
model for certain locations $u$,
where x
is the original point pattern dataset to which
the model was fitted.
The locations $u$ at which the fitted conditional intensity/trend
is evaluated, are the points of the
quadrature scheme used to fit the model in ppm
.
They include the data points (the points of the original point pattern
dataset x
) and other ``dummy'' points
in the window of observation.
The argument drop
is explained in quad.ppm
.
Use predict.ppm
to compute the fitted conditional
intensity at other locations or with other values of the
explanatory variables.