A function to compute an approximate scaling matrix for the MCMC algorithm. Not intended for general use.
proposalVariance_polygonal(
X,
surv,
betahat,
omegahat,
Yhat,
priors,
cov.model,
u,
control
)
an estimate of eta and also an approximate scaling matrix for the MCMC
the design matrix, containing covariate information
an object of class Surv
an estimate of beta
an estimate of omega
an estimate of Y
the priors
the spatial covariance model
a vector of pairwise distances
a list containg various control parameters for the MCMC and post-processing routines