SpatialPOP: package for generation of spatial data along with spatial coordinates and spatially varying model parameters"
In SpatialPOP: Generation of Spatial Data with Spatially Varying Model Parameter

Introduction

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In this R package, a spatial dataset can be generated under the assumption that observations are collected from a two dimensional uniform grid consists of (m^2^) lattice points having unit distance between any two neighbouring points along the horizontal and vertical directions.

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Generation of simulated dataset based on spatially varying regression model

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generation of spatial coordinates of locations

The size of the population is N= m^2^. The spatial coordinates of the locations of observations can be computed by the following expressions

( Latitude~i~, Longitude~i~ )= ( mod(i-1,m), [(i-1)/m] ), i= 1,..., m^2^

*where, mod(i-1,m) is the remainder of (i-1) divided by m and [(i-1)/m] is the integer part of the number (i-1)/m *

generation of auxiliary variable from uniform distribution

X =runif(N,0,1)

error term drawn independently from normal distribution i.e. N(0,1)

e =rnorm(N, mean=0, sd=1)

generation of spatially varying regression coefficients

B~0~=(Latitude~i~+Longitude~i~)/6

B~1~=(Latitude~i~/3)

spatially varying regression model for generating the response variable

Y~i~ = B~0~( Latitude~i~,Longitude~i~ ) + B~1~( Latitude~i~,Longitude~i~ )*X~i~ + e~i~ ; i= 1,..., N

# Examples: generate an uniform two dimensional grid of lattice points 

library(SpatialPOP)
coord_grid=spatial_grid(c(1:5),c(1:5))
coord_grid=as.data.frame(coord_grid)
names(coord_grid)=cbind("x","y")
coord_grid
plot(coord_grid)

# Examples: simulated data along with spatial coordinates and spatially varying model parameters

library(SpatialPOP)

coord_grid=spatial_grid(c(1:5),c(1:5))
coord_grid=as.data.frame(coord_grid)
names(coord_grid)=cbind("x","y")
coord_grid
N<-nrow(coord_grid)
N
m<-sqrt(nrow(coord_grid))
m


spatial_data<-spatialPOP(25,5,c(1:5),c(1:5))
spatial_data