palsr: Projected Actor Locations for Spatial Interaction Modeling

Implements the Projected Actor Locations (PALS) method for spatial modeling of dyadic interactions between geographically mobile actors, as described in Kim, Liu and Desmarais (2023) <doi:10.1017/psrm.2022.6>. PALS applies exponential-smoothing weights to the spatiotemporal histories of a focal actor and its interaction partners ("alters") to project the location of future interactions. The package provides projection, maximum-similarity parameter estimation by minimizing great-circle (Haversine) prediction error, nonparametric bootstrap with multiple-imputation (Rubin's Rules) pooling, dyadic distance covariate construction, visualization, and a simulated example dataset of subnational conflict.

Package details

AuthorBruce A. Desmarais [aut, cre], Sangyeon Kim [aut], Howard Liu [aut]
MaintainerBruce A. Desmarais <bruce.desmarais@gmail.com>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.1.0
URL https://github.com/bdesmarais/palsr
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("palsr")

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palsr documentation built on July 1, 2026, 5:07 p.m.