estimate_lambda: Estimate lambda values

In SpatialEpi: Methods and Data for Spatial Epidemiology

Estimate lambda values

Description

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

Usage

estimate_lambda(n.sim, J, prior.z, overlap, pi0)

Arguments

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

Value

estimates of lambda and prior.j

References

Wakefield J. and Kim A.Y. (2013) A Bayesian model for cluster detection. Biostatistics, 14, 752–765.

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