estimate_lambda

Internal function to estimate values of lambda needed for <code>MCMC_simulation</code> and prior probability of k clusters/anti-clusters for k=0,...,J

Methods and data for cluster detection and disease mapping.

Albert Y Kim

SpatialEpi

Methods and Data for Spatial Epidemiology

Cici Chen

Albert Y. Kim

Michelle Ross

Jon Wakefield

Mikael Moise

estimate_lambda function

<dl><dt>n.sim</dt>
<dd>number of importance sampling iterations</dd>
<dt>J</dt>
<dd>maximum number of clusters/anti-clusters to consider</dd>
<dt>prior.z</dt>
<dd>prior probability of each single zone</dd>
<dt>overlap</dt>
<dd>output of <code>create_geo_objects()</code>: list with two elements: <code>presence</code> which lists for each area all the single zones it is present in and <code>cluster_list</code> for each single zone its component areas</dd>
<dt>pi0</dt>
<dd>prior probability of no clusters</dd></dl>

Arguments

Estimate lambda values — estimate_lambda

<dl>

<dt>n.sim</dt>
<dd>number of importance sampling iterations</dd>


<dt>J</dt>
<dd>maximum number of clusters/anti-clusters to consider</dd>


<dt>prior.z</dt>
<dd>prior probability of each single zone</dd>


<dt>overlap</dt>
<dd>output of <code>create_geo_objects()</code>: list with two elements: <code>presence</code> which lists for each area all the single zones it is present in and <code>cluster_list</code> for each single zone its component areas</dd>


<dt>pi0</dt>
<dd>prior probability of no clusters</dd>

</dl>

estimate_lambda: Estimate lambda values

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