spdep (version 0.5-33)

lagsarlm: Spatial simultaneous autoregressive lag model estimation

Description

Maximum likelihood estimation of spatial simultaneous autoregressive lag and spatial Durbin (mixed) models of the form:

$$y=\rho Wy+X\beta +\epsilon$$

where $\rho$ is found by optimize() first, and $\beta$ and other parameters by generalized least squares subsequently (one-dimensional search using optim performs badly on some platforms). In the spatial Durbin (mixed) model, the spatially lagged independent variables are added to X. Note that interpretation of the fitted coefficients should use impact measures, because of the feedback loops induced by the data generation process for this model. With one of the sparse matrix methods, larger numbers of observations can be handled, but the interval= argument may need be set when the weights are not row-standardised.

Usage

lagsarlm(formula, data = list(), listw, 
	na.action, type="lag", method="eigen", quiet=NULL, 
	zero.policy=NULL, interval=NULL, tol.solve=1.0e-10, trs=NULL, 
	control=list())

Arguments

formula

a symbolic description of the model to be fit. The details of model specification are given for lm()

data

an optional data frame containing the variables in the model. By default the variables are taken from the environment which the function is called.

listw

a listw object created for example by nb2listw

na.action

a function (default options("na.action")), can also be na.omit or na.exclude with consequences for residuals and fitted values - in these cases the weights list will be subsetted to remove NAs in the data. It may be

type

default "lag", may be set to "mixed"; when "mixed", the lagged intercept is dropped for spatial weights style "W", that is row-standardised weights, but otherwise included

method

"eigen" (default) - the Jacobian is computed as the product of (1 - rho*eigenvalue) using eigenw, and "spam" or "Matrix_J" for strictly symmetric weights lists of styles "B" and "C", or made symmetric by similarity (Ord, 1975, Appendix C) if

quiet

default NULL, use !verbose global option value; if FALSE, reports function values during optimization.

zero.policy

default NULL, use global option value; if TRUE assign zero to the lagged value of zones without neighbours, if FALSE (default) assign NA - causing lagsarlm() to terminate with an error

interval

default is NULL, search interval for autoregressive parameter

tol.solve

the tolerance for detecting linear dependencies in the columns of matrices to be inverted - passed to solve() (default=1.0e-10). This may be used if necessary to extract coefficient standard errors (for instance lowering to 1e-12), but errors

trs

default NULL, if given, a vector of powered spatial weights matrix traces output by trW; when given, insert the asymptotic analytical values into the numerical Hessian instead of the approximated values; may be used to get around some problem

control

list of extra control arguments - see section below

Value

• A list object of class sarlm
• type
  "lag" or "mixed"
• rho
  simultaneous autoregressive lag coefficient
• coefficients
  GLS coefficient estimates
• rest.se
  asymptotic standard errors if ase=TRUE, otherwise approximate numeriacal Hessian-based values
• LL
  log likelihood value at computed optimum
• s2
  GLS residual variance
• SSE
  sum of squared GLS errors
• parameters
  number of parameters estimated
• lm.model
  the lm object returned when estimating for $\rho=0$
• method
  the method used to calculate the Jacobian
• call
  the call used to create this object
• residuals
  GLS residuals
• lm.target
  the lm object returned for the GLS fit
• opt
  object returned from numerical optimisation
• fitted.values
  Difference between residuals and response variable
• se.fit
  Not used yet
• formula
  model formula
• ase
  TRUE if method=eigen
• rho.se
  if ase=TRUE, the asymptotic standard error of $\rho$, otherwise approximate numeriacal Hessian-based value
• LMtest
  if ase=TRUE, the Lagrange Multiplier test for the absence of spatial autocorrelation in the lag model residuals
• resvar
  the asymptotic coefficient covariance matrix for (s2, rho, B)
• zero.policy
  zero.policy for this model
• aliased
  the aliased explanatory variables (if any)
• listw_style
  the style of the spatial weights used
• interval
  the line search interval used to find $\rho$
• fdHess
  the numerical Hessian-based coefficient covariance matrix for (rho, B) if computed
• optimHess
  if TRUE and fdHess returned, optim used to calculate Hessian at optimum
• insert
  if TRUE and fdHess returned, the asymptotic analytical values are inserted into the numerical Hessian instead of the approximated values, and its size increased to include the first row/column for sigma2
• LLNullLlm
  Log-likelihood of the null linear model
• timings
  processing timings
• na.action
  (possibly) named vector of excluded or omitted observations if non-default na.action argument used
• The internal sar.lag.mixed.* functions return the value of the log likelihood function at $\rho$.

Details

The asymptotic standard error of $\rho$ is only computed when method=eigen, because the full matrix operations involved would be costly for large n typically associated with the choice of method="spam" or "Matrix". The same applies to the coefficient covariance matrix. Taken as the asymptotic matrix from the literature, it is typically badly scaled, and with the elements involving $\rho$ being very small, while other parts of the matrix can be very large (often many orders of magnitude in difference). It often happens that the tol.solve argument needs to be set to a smaller value than the default, or the RHS variables can be centred or reduced in range.

Versions of the package from 0.4-38 include numerical Hessian values where asymptotic standard errors are not available. This change has been introduced to permit the simulation of distributions for impact measures. The warnings made above with regard to variable scaling also apply in this case.

Note that the fitted() function for the output object assumes that the response variable may be reconstructed as the sum of the trend, the signal, and the noise (residuals). Since the values of the response variable are known, their spatial lags are used to calculate signal components (Cressie 1993, p. 564). This differs from other software, including GeoDa, which does not use knowledge of the response variable in making predictions for the fitting data.

References

Cliff, A. D., Ord, J. K. 1981 Spatial processes, Pion; Ord, J. K. 1975 Estimation methods for models of spatial interaction, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70, 120-126; Anselin, L. 1988 Spatial econometrics: methods and models. (Dordrecht: Kluwer); Anselin, L. 1995 SpaceStat, a software program for the analysis of spatial data, version 1.80. Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (www.spacestat.com); Anselin L, Bera AK (1998) Spatial dependence in linear regression models with an introduction to spatial econometrics. In: Ullah A, Giles DEA (eds) Handbook of applied economic statistics. Marcel Dekker, New York, pp. 237-289; Cressie, N. A. C. 1993 Statistics for spatial data, Wiley, New York; LeSage J and RK Pace (2009) Introduction to Spatial Econometrics. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

See Also

lm, errorsarlm, eigenw,predict.sarlm, impacts.sarlm, residuals.sarlm, do_ldet

Examples

data(oldcol)
COL.lag.eig <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="W"), method="eigen", quiet=FALSE)
summary(COL.lag.eig, correlation=TRUE)
COL.lag.eig$fdHess
COL.lag.eig$resvar
W <- as(as_dgRMatrix_listw(nb2listw(COL.nb)), "CsparseMatrix")
trMatc <- trW(W, type="mult")
COL.lag.eig1 <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="W"), control=list(fdHess=TRUE), trs=trMatc)
COL.lag.eig1$fdHess
system.time(COL.lag.M <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb), method="Matrix", quiet=FALSE))
summary(COL.lag.M)
impacts(COL.lag.M, listw=nb2listw(COL.nb))
system.time(COL.lag.sp <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb), method="spam", quiet=FALSE))
summary(COL.lag.sp)
COL.lag.B <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="B"))
summary(COL.lag.B, correlation=TRUE)
COL.mixed.B <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="B"), type="mixed", tol.solve=1e-9)
summary(COL.mixed.B, correlation=TRUE)
COL.mixed.W <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="W"), type="mixed")
summary(COL.mixed.W, correlation=TRUE)
NA.COL.OLD <- COL.OLD
NA.COL.OLD$CRIME[20:25] <- NA
COL.lag.NA <- lagsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=NA.COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb), na.action=na.exclude, 
 control=list(tol.opt=.Machine$double.eps^0.4))
COL.lag.NA$na.action
COL.lag.NA
resid(COL.lag.NA)
data(boston)
gp2mM <- lagsarlm(log(CMEDV) ~ CRIM + ZN + INDUS + CHAS + I(NOX^2) + 
I(RM^2) +  AGE + log(DIS) + log(RAD) + TAX + PTRATIO + B + log(LSTAT), 
data=boston.c, nb2listw(boston.soi), type="mixed", method="Matrix")
summary(gp2mM)
W <- as(as_dgRMatrix_listw(nb2listw(boston.soi)), "CsparseMatrix")
trMatb <- trW(W, type="mult")
gp2mMi <- lagsarlm(log(CMEDV) ~ CRIM + ZN + INDUS + CHAS + I(NOX^2) + 
I(RM^2) +  AGE + log(DIS) + log(RAD) + TAX + PTRATIO + B + log(LSTAT), 
data=boston.c, nb2listw(boston.soi), type="mixed", method="Matrix", 
trs=trMatb)
summary(gp2mMi)