spatstat.core (version 2.1-2)

# predict.ppm: Prediction from a Fitted Point Process Model

## Description

Given a fitted point process model obtained by ppm, evaluate the spatial trend or the conditional intensity of the model at new locations.

## Usage

# S3 method for ppm
predict(object, window=NULL, ngrid=NULL, locations=NULL,
covariates=NULL,
type=c("trend", "cif", "intensity", "count"),
se=FALSE,
interval=c("none", "confidence", "prediction"),
level = 0.95,
X=data.ppm(object), correction, ignore.hardcore=FALSE,
…,
dimyx=NULL, eps=NULL,
new.coef=NULL, check=TRUE, repair=TRUE)

## Arguments

object

A fitted point process model, typically obtained from the model-fitting algorithm ppm. An object of class "ppm" (see ppm.object).

window

Optional. A window (object of class "owin") delimiting the locations where predictions should be computed. Defaults to the window of the original data used to fit the model object.

ngrid

Optional. Dimensions of a rectangular grid of locations inside window where the predictions should be computed. An integer, or an integer vector of length 2, specifying the number of grid points in the $$y$$ and $$x$$ directions. (Incompatible with locations. Equivalent to dimyx.)

locations

Optional. Data giving the exact $$x,y$$ coordinates (and marks, if required) of locations at which predictions should be computed. Either a point pattern, or a data frame with columns named x and y, or a binary image mask, or a pixel image. (Incompatible with ngrid, dimyx and eps).

covariates

Values of external covariates required by the model. Either a data frame or a list of images. See Details.

type

Character string. Indicates which property of the fitted model should be predicted. Options are "trend" for the spatial trend, "cif" or "lambda" for the conditional intensity, "intensity" for the intensity, and "count" for the total number of points in window.

se

Logical value indicating whether to calculate standard errors as well.

interval

String (partially matched) indicating whether to produce estimates (interval="none", the default) or a confidence interval (interval="confidence") or a prediction interval (interval="prediction").

level

Coverage probability for the confidence or prediction interval.

X

Optional. A point pattern (object of class "ppp") to be taken as the data point pattern when calculating the conditional intensity. The default is to use the original data to which the model was fitted.

correction

Name of the edge correction to be used in calculating the conditional intensity. Options include "border" and "none". Other options may include "periodic", "isotropic" and "translate" depending on the model. The default correction is the one that was used to fit object.

ignore.hardcore

Advanced use only. Logical value specifying whether to compute only the finite part of the interaction potential (effectively removing any hard core interaction terms).

Ignored.

dimyx

Equivalent to ngrid.

eps

Width and height of pixels in the prediction grid. A numerical value, or numeric vector of length 2.

new.coef

Numeric vector of parameter values to replace the fitted model parameters coef(object).

check

Logical value indicating whether to check the internal format of object. If there is any possibility that this object has been restored from a dump file, or has otherwise lost track of the environment where it was originally computed, set check=TRUE.

repair

Logical value indicating whether to repair the internal format of object, if it is found to be damaged.

## Value

If total is given: a numeric vector or matrix.

If locations is given and is a data frame: a vector of predicted values for the spatial locations (and marks, if required) given in locations.

If ngrid is given, or if locations is given and is a binary image mask or a pixel image: If object is an unmarked point process, the result is a pixel image object (of class "im", see im.object) containing the predictions. If object is a multitype point process, the result is a list of pixel images, containing the predictions for each type at the same grid of locations.

The predicted values'' are either values of the spatial trend (if type="trend"), values of the conditional intensity (if type="cif" or type="lambda"), values of the intensity (if type="intensity") or numbers of points (if type="count").

If se=TRUE, then the result is a list with two entries, the first being the predicted values in the format described above, and the second being the standard errors in the same format.

## Warnings

The current implementation invokes predict.glm so that prediction is wrong if the trend formula in object involves terms in ns(), bs() or poly(). This is a weakness of predict.glm itself!

Error messages may be very opaque, as they tend to come from deep in the workings of predict.glm. If you are passing the covariates argument and the function crashes, it is advisable to start by checking that all the conditions listed above are satisfied.

## Details

This function computes properties of a fitted spatial point process model (object of class "ppm"). For a Poisson point process it can compute the fitted intensity function, or the expected number of points in a region. For a Gibbs point process it can compute the spatial trend (first order potential), conditional intensity, and approximate intensity of the process. Point estimates, standard errors, confidence intervals and prediction intervals are available.

Given a point pattern dataset, we may fit a point process model to the data using the model-fitting algorithm ppm. This returns an object of class "ppm" representing the fitted point process model (see ppm.object). The parameter estimates in this fitted model can be read off simply by printing the ppm object. The spatial trend, conditional intensity and intensity of the fitted model are evaluated using this function predict.ppm.

The default action is to create a rectangular grid of points in the observation window of the data point pattern, and evaluate the spatial trend at these locations.

The argument type specifies the values that are desired:

If type="trend":

the spatial trend'' of the fitted model is evaluated at each required spatial location $$u$$. See below.

If type="cif":

the conditional intensity $$\lambda(u, X)$$ of the fitted model is evaluated at each required spatial location $$u$$, with respect to the data point pattern $$X$$.

If type="intensity":

the intensity $$\lambda(u)$$ of the fitted model is evaluated at each required spatial location $$u$$.

If type="count":

the expected total number of points (or the expected number of points falling in window) is evaluated. If window is a tessellation, the expected number of points in each tile of the tessellation is evaluated.

The spatial trend, conditional intensity, and intensity are all equivalent if the fitted model is a Poisson point process. However, if the model is not a Poisson process, then they are all different. The spatial trend'' is the (exponentiated) first order potential, and not the intensity of the process. [For example if we fit the stationary Strauss process with parameters $$\beta$$ and $$\gamma$$, then the spatial trend is constant and equal to $$\beta$$, while the intensity is a smaller value.]

The default is to compute an estimate of the desired quantity. If interval="confidence" or interval="prediction", the estimate is replaced by a confidence interval or prediction interval.

If se=TRUE, then a standard error is also calculated, and is returned together with the (point or interval) estimate.

The spatial locations where predictions are required, are determined by the (incompatible) arguments ngrid and locations.

• If the argument ngrid is present, then predictions are performed at a rectangular grid of locations in the window window. The result of prediction will be a pixel image or images.

• If locations is present, then predictions will be performed at the spatial locations given by this dataset. These may be an arbitrary list of spatial locations, or they may be a rectangular grid. The result of prediction will be either a numeric vector or a pixel image or images.

• If neither ngrid nor locations is given, then ngrid is assumed. The value of ngrid defaults to spatstat.options("npixel"), which is initialised to 128 when spatstat is loaded.

The argument locations may be a point pattern, a data frame or a list specifying arbitrary locations; or it may be a binary image mask (an object of class "owin" with type "mask") or a pixel image (object of class "im") specifying (a subset of) a rectangular grid of locations.

• If locations is a point pattern (object of class "ppp"), then prediction will be performed at the points of the point pattern. The result of prediction will be a vector of predicted values, one value for each point. If the model is a marked point process, then locations should be a marked point pattern, with marks of the same kind as the model; prediction will be performed at these marked points. The result of prediction will be a vector of predicted values, one value for each (marked) point.

• If locations is a data frame or list, then it must contain vectors locations$x and locations$y specifying the $$x,y$$ coordinates of the prediction locations. Additionally, if the model is a marked point process, then locations must also contain a factor locations\$marks specifying the marks of the prediction locations. These vectors must have equal length. The result of prediction will be a vector of predicted values, of the same length.

• If locations is a binary image mask, then prediction will be performed at each pixel in this binary image where the pixel value is TRUE (in other words, at each pixel that is inside the window). If the fitted model is an unmarked point process, then the result of prediction will be an image. If the fitted model is a marked point process, then prediction will be performed for each possible value of the mark at each such location, and the result of prediction will be a list of images, one for each mark value.

• If locations is a pixel image (object of class "im"), then prediction will be performed at each pixel in this image where the pixel value is defined (i.e.\ where the pixel value is not NA).

The argument covariates gives the values of any spatial covariates at the prediction locations. If the trend formula in the fitted model involves spatial covariates (other than the Cartesian coordinates x, y) then covariates is required. The format and use of covariates are analogous to those of the argument of the same name in ppm. It is either a data frame or a list of images.

• If covariates is a list of images, then the names of the entries should correspond to the names of covariates in the model formula trend. Each entry in the list must be an image object (of class "im", see im.object). The software will look up the pixel values of each image at the quadrature points.

• If covariates is a data frame, then the ith row of covariates is assumed to contain covariate data for the ith location. When locations is a data frame, this just means that each row of covariates contains the covariate data for the location specified in the corresponding row of locations. When locations is a binary image mask, the row covariates[i,] must correspond to the location x[i],y[i] where x = as.vector(raster.x(locations)) and y = as.vector(raster.y(locations)).

Note that if you only want to use prediction in order to generate a plot of the predicted values, it may be easier to use plot.ppm which calls this function and plots the results.

## References

Baddeley, A. and Turner, R. Practical maximum pseudolikelihood for spatial point patterns. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 42 (2000) 283--322.

Berman, M. and Turner, T.R. Approximating point process likelihoods with GLIM. Applied Statistics 41 (1992) 31--38.

ppm, ppm.object, plot.ppm, print.ppm, fitted.ppm, spatstat.options

## Examples

# NOT RUN {

# }
# NOT RUN {
m <- ppm(cells ~ polynom(x,y,2), Strauss(0.05))
trend <- predict(m, type="trend")
if(human <- interactive()) {
image(trend)
points(cells)
}
cif <- predict(m, type="cif")
if(human) {
persp(cif)
}
mj <- ppm(japanesepines ~ harmonic(x,y,2))
se <- predict(mj, se=TRUE) # image of standard error
ci <- predict(mj, interval="c") # two images, confidence interval

# prediction interval for total number of points
predict(mj, type="count", interval="p")

# prediction intervals for counts in tiles

# prediction at arbitrary locations
predict(mj, locations=data.frame(x=0.3, y=0.4))

X <- runifpoint(5, Window(japanesepines))
predict(mj, locations=X, se=TRUE)

# multitype
rr <- matrix(0.06, 2, 2)
ma <- ppm(amacrine ~ marks,  MultiStrauss(rr))
Z <- predict(ma)
Z <- predict(ma, type="cif")
predict(ma, locations=data.frame(x=0.8, y=0.5,marks="on"), type="cif")

# }