Plot spatial point process residuals against a covariate
lurking(object, …)# S3 method for ppm
lurking(object, covariate,
                    type="eem",
                    cumulative=TRUE,
                    …,
                    plot.it = TRUE,
                    plot.sd = is.poisson(object),
                    clipwindow=default.clipwindow(object),
                    rv = NULL,
                    envelope=FALSE, nsim=39, nrank=1,
                    typename,
                    covname,
                    oldstyle=FALSE,
                    check=TRUE,
                    verbose=TRUE,
                    nx=128,
                    splineargs=list(spar=0.5),
                    internal=NULL) 
# S3 method for ppp
lurking(object, covariate,
                    type="eem",
                    cumulative=TRUE,
                    …,
                    plot.it = TRUE,
                    plot.sd = is.poisson(object),
                    clipwindow=default.clipwindow(object),
                    rv = NULL,
                    envelope=FALSE, nsim=39, nrank=1,
                    typename,
                    covname,
                    oldstyle=FALSE,
                    check=TRUE,
                    verbose=TRUE,
                    nx=128,
                    splineargs=list(spar=0.5),
                    internal=NULL)
The fitted point process model (an object of class "ppm")
    for which diagnostics should be produced. This object
    is usually obtained from ppm. Alternatively,
    object may be a point pattern (object of class
    "ppp").
The covariate against which residuals should be plotted.
    Either a numeric vector, a pixel image, or an expression.
    See Details below.
String indicating the type of residuals or weights to be computed.
    Choices include "eem",
    "raw", "inverse" and "pearson".
    See diagnose.ppm for all possible choices.
Logical flag indicating whether to plot a
    cumulative sum of marks (cumulative=TRUE) or the derivative
    of this sum, a marginal density of the smoothed residual field
    (cumulative=FALSE).
Arguments passed to plot.default
    and lines to control the plot behaviour.
Logical value indicating whether 
    plots should be shown. If plot.it=FALSE, only
    the computed coordinates for the plots are returned.
    See Value.
Logical value indicating whether 
    error bounds should be added to plot.
    The default is TRUE for Poisson models and
    FALSE for non-Poisson models. See Details.
If not NULL this argument indicates that residuals shall
    only be computed inside a subregion of the window containing the
    original point pattern data. Then clipwindow should be
    a window object of class "owin".
Usually absent. 
    If this argument is present, the point process residuals will not be
    calculated from the fitted model object,
    but will instead be taken directly from rv.
Logical value indicating whether to compute simulation envelopes
    for the plot. Alternatively envelope may be a list of
    point patterns to use for computing the simulation envelopes,
    or an object of class "envelope" containing simulated point
    patterns.
Number of simulated point patterns to be generated
    to produce the simulation envelope, if envelope=TRUE.
Integer. Rank of the envelope value amongst the nsim simulated
    values. A rank of 1 means that the minimum and maximum
    simulated values will be used.
Usually absent. If this argument is present, it should be a string, and will be used (in the axis labels of plots) to describe the type of residuals.
A string name for the covariate, to be used in axis labels of plots.
Logical flag indicating whether error bounds should be plotted
    using the approximation given in the original paper
    (oldstyle=TRUE),
    or using the correct asymptotic formula (oldstyle=FALSE).
Logical flag indicating whether the integrity of the data structure
    in object should be checked.
Logical value indicating whether to print progress reports during Monte Carlo simulation.
Integer. Number of covariate values to be used in the plot.
A list of arguments passed to smooth.spline
    for the estimation of the derivatives in the case cumulative=FALSE.
Internal use only.
The (invisible) return value is an object 
  belonging to the class "lurk", for which there
  are methods for plot and print.
This object is a list containing two dataframes
  empirical and theoretical. 
  The first dataframe empirical contains columns
  covariate and value giving the coordinates of the
  lurking variable plot. The second dataframe theoretical
  contains columns covariate, mean and sd
  giving the coordinates of the plot of the theoretical mean
  and standard deviation.
This function generates a ‘lurking variable’ plot for a
  fitted point process model. 
  Residuals from the model represented by object
  are plotted against the covariate specified by covariate.
  This plot can be used to reveal departures from the fitted model,
  in particular, to reveal that the point pattern depends on the covariate.
The function lurking is generic, with methods for
  ppm and ppp documented here, and possibly other methods.
The argument object would usually be a fitted point process model
  (object of class "ppm") produced by the
  model-fitting algorithm ppm). If
  object is a point pattern (object of class "ppp") then
  the model is taken to be the uniform Poisson process (Complete
  Spatial Randomness) fitted to this point pattern.
First the residuals from the fitted model (Baddeley et al, 2004)
  are computed at each quadrature point,
  or alternatively the `exponential energy marks' (Stoyan and Grabarnik,
  1991) are computed at each data point.
  The argument type selects the type of
  residual or weight. See diagnose.ppm for options
  and explanation.
A lurking variable plot for point processes (Baddeley et al, 2004)
  displays either the cumulative sum of residuals/weights
  (if cumulative = TRUE) or a kernel-weighted average of the
  residuals/weights (if cumulative = FALSE) plotted against
  the covariate. The empirical plot (solid lines) is shown
  together with its expected value assuming the model is true
  (dashed lines) and optionally also the pointwise
  two-standard-deviation limits (grey shading).
To be more precise, let \(Z(u)\) denote the value of the covariate at a spatial location \(u\).
If cumulative=TRUE then we plot \(H(z)\) against \(z\),
    where \(H(z)\) is the sum of the residuals 
    over all quadrature points where the covariate takes
    a value less than or equal to \(z\), or the sum of the
    exponential energy weights over all data points where the covariate
    takes a value less than or equal to \(z\).
If cumulative=FALSE then we plot \(h(z)\) against \(z\),
    where \(h(z)\) is the derivative of \(H(z)\),
    computed approximately by spline smoothing.
For the point process residuals \(E(H(z)) = 0\), while for the exponential energy weights \(E(H(z)) = \) area of the subset of the window satisfying \(Z(u) <= z\).
If the empirical and theoretical curves deviate substantially from one another, the interpretation is that the fitted model does not correctly account for dependence on the covariate. The correct form (of the spatial trend part of the model) may be suggested by the shape of the plot.
If plot.sd = TRUE, then superimposed on the lurking variable
  plot are the pointwise
  two-standard-deviation error limits for \(H(x)\) calculated for the
  inhomogeneous Poisson process. The default is plot.sd = TRUE
  for Poisson models and plot.sd = FALSE for non-Poisson
  models.
By default, the two-standard-deviation limits are calculated
  from the exact formula for the asymptotic variance
  of the residuals under the asymptotic normal approximation,
  equation (37) of Baddeley et al (2006).
  However, for compatibility with the original paper
  of Baddeley et al (2005), if oldstyle=TRUE,
  the two-standard-deviation limits are calculated
  using the innovation variance, an over-estimate of the true
  variance of the residuals.
The argument covariate is either a numeric vector, a pixel
  image, or an R language expression.
  If it is a numeric vector, it is assumed to contain
  the values of the covariate for each of the quadrature points
  in the fitted model. The quadrature points can be extracted by
  quad.ppm(object).
If covariate is a pixel image, it is assumed to contain the
  values of the covariate at each location in the window. The values of
  this image at the quadrature points will be extracted.
Alternatively, if covariate
  is an expression, it will be evaluated in the same environment
  as the model formula used in fitting the model object. It must
  yield a vector of the same length as the number of quadrature points.
  The expression may contain the terms x and y representing the
  cartesian coordinates, and may also contain other variables that were
  available when the model was fitted. Certain variable names are
  reserved words; see ppm.
Note that lurking variable plots for the \(x\) and \(y\) coordinates
  are also generated by diagnose.ppm, amongst other
  types of diagnostic plots. This function is more general in that it
  enables the user to plot the residuals against any chosen covariate
  that may have been present.
For advanced use, even the values of the residuals/weights
  can be altered. If the argument rv is present,
  the residuals will not be calculated from the fitted model
  object but will instead be taken directly from the object rv.
  If type = "eem" then rv should be similar to the
  return value of eem, namely, a numeric vector
  with length equal to the number of data points in the original point
  pattern. Otherwise, rv should be
  similar to the return value of residuals.ppm,
  that is, rv should be an object of class
  "msr" (see msr) representing a signed measure.
Baddeley, A., Turner, R., Moller, J. and Hazelton, M. (2005) Residual analysis for spatial point processes. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 67, 617--666.
Baddeley, A., Moller, J. and Pakes, A.G. (2006) Properties of residuals for spatial point processes. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 60, 627--649.
Stoyan, D. and Grabarnik, P. (1991) Second-order characteristics for stochastic structures connected with Gibbs point processes. Mathematische Nachrichten, 151:95--100.
residuals.ppm,
 diagnose.ppm,
 residuals.ppm,
 qqplot.ppm,
 eem,
 ppm
# NOT RUN {
  (a <- lurking(nztrees, expression(x), type="raw"))
  fit <- ppm(nztrees ~x, Poisson(), nd=128)
  (b <- lurking(fit, expression(x), type="raw"))
  lurking(fit, expression(x), type="raw", cumulative=FALSE)
# }
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