Iest: Estimate the I-function

In spatstat.core: Core Functionality of the 'spatstat' Family

Estimate the I-function

Description

Estimates the summary function I(r) for a multitype point pattern.

Usage

  Iest(X, ..., eps=NULL, r=NULL, breaks=NULL, correction=NULL)

Arguments

X	The observed point pattern, from which an estimate of I(r) will be computed. An object of class "ppp", or data in any format acceptable to as.ppp().
...	Ignored.
eps	the resolution of the discrete approximation to Euclidean distance (see below). There is a sensible default.
r	Optional. Numeric vector of values for the argument r at which I(r) should be evaluated. There is a sensible default. First-time users are strongly advised not to specify this argument. See below for important conditions on r.
breaks	This argument is for internal use only.
correction	Optional. Vector of character strings specifying the edge correction(s) to be used by Jest.

Details

The I function summarises the dependence between types in a multitype point process (Van Lieshout and Baddeley, 1999) It is based on the concept of the J function for an unmarked point process (Van Lieshout and Baddeley, 1996). See Jest for information about the J function.

The I function is defined as

I(r) = (sum p[i] Jii(r)) - J(r)

where J is the J function for the entire point process ignoring the marks, while Jii is the J function for the process consisting of points of type i only, and p[i] is the proportion of points which are of type i.

The I function is designed to measure dependence between points of different types, even if the points are not Poisson. Let X be a stationary multitype point process, and write X[i] for the process of points of type i. If the processes X[i] are independent of each other, then the I-function is identically equal to 0. Deviations I(r) < 1 or I(r) > 1 typically indicate negative and positive association, respectively, between types. See Van Lieshout and Baddeley (1999) for further information.

An estimate of I derived from a multitype spatial point pattern dataset can be used in exploratory data analysis and formal inference about the pattern. The estimate of I(r) is compared against the constant function 0. Deviations I(r) < 1 or I(r) > 1 may suggest negative and positive association, respectively.

This algorithm estimates the I-function from the multitype point pattern X. It assumes that X can be treated as a realisation of a stationary (spatially homogeneous) random spatial marked point process in the plane, observed through a bounded window.

The argument X is interpreted as a point pattern object (of class "ppp", see ppp.object) and can be supplied in any of the formats recognised by as.ppp(). It must be a multitype point pattern (it must have a marks vector which is a factor).

The function Jest is called to compute estimates of the J functions in the formula above. In fact three different estimates are computed using different edge corrections. See Jest for information.

Value

An object of class "fv", see fv.object, which can be plotted directly using plot.fv.

Essentially a data frame containing

r	the vector of values of the argument r at which the function I has been estimated
rs	the “reduced sample” or “border correction” estimator of I(r) computed from the border-corrected estimates of J functions
km	the spatial Kaplan-Meier estimator of I(r) computed from the Kaplan-Meier estimates of J functions
han	the Hanisch-style estimator of I(r) computed from the Hanisch-style estimates of J functions
un	the uncorrected estimate of I(r) computed from the uncorrected estimates of J
theo	the theoretical value of I(r) for a stationary Poisson process: identically equal to 0

Note

Sizeable amounts of memory may be needed during the calculation.

Author(s)

\adrian

and \rolf

References

Van Lieshout, M.N.M. and Baddeley, A.J. (1996) A nonparametric measure of spatial interaction in point patterns. Statistica Neerlandica 50, 344–361.

Van Lieshout, M.N.M. and Baddeley, A.J. (1999) Indices of dependence between types in multivariate point patterns. Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 26, 511–532.

See Also

Jest

Examples

   data(amacrine)
   Ic <- Iest(amacrine)
   plot(Ic, main="Amacrine Cells data")
   # values are below I= 0, suggesting negative association
   # between 'on' and 'off' cells.

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