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GeoAdjust

The R package GeoAdjust is constructed to implement empirical Bayesian geostatistical inference for DHS household survey data sets under positional uncertainty of household cluster centers.

Installation

Please use the code below to install the package.

install.packages("GeoAdjust")

Citation

To cite the GeoAdjust package in publications use

@article{altay2022covariates,
  title={Jittering Impacts Raster- and Distance-based Geostatistical Analyses of DHS Data},
  author={Altay, Umut and Paige, John and Riebler, Andrea and Fuglstad, Geir-Arne},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.07442v1},
  year={2022}
}

Usage

The package functionality and the examples are explained in detail in our paper "GeoAdjust: Adjusting for Positional Uncertainty in Geostatistial Analysis of DHS Data".

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Install

install.packages('GeoAdjust')

Monthly Downloads

11,970

Version

2.0.1

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Umut Altay

Last Published

October 2nd, 2025

Functions in GeoAdjust (2.0.1)

prepareInput

Prepares input data list for the model estimation with estimateModel() function.
estimateModel

Estimates model parameters
print.res

Prints the output of estimateModel() function.
meshCountry

Creates a constrained refined Delaunay triangulation mesh based on the country borders.
gridCountry

Creates a grid of locations within the bounding box of the national borders of a country of interest.
plotPred

Plots the predictions and the corresponding uncertainty (coefficient of variation)
dummy

Roxygen commands
predRes

Predicts model outcomes at new locations.