lgcp (version 1.3-8)

spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame: spatialAtRisk.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame function

Description

Creates a spatialAtRisk object from a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame object.

Usage

## S3 method for class '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, link{lgcpSim}, spatialAtRisk.default, spatialAtRisk.fromXYZ, spatialAtRisk.im, spatialAtRisk.function, spatialAtRisk.SpatialGridDataFrame, spatialAtRisk.bivden