envelope: Simulation Envelopes of Summary Function
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Simulation Envelopes of Summary Function
Description
Computes simulation envelopes of a summary function.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'ppm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL, fix.n=FALSE, fix.marks=FALSE,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
start=NULL, control=update(default.rmhcontrol(Y), nrep=nrep), nrep=1e5,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
## S3 method for class 'kppm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
## S3 method for class 'slrm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
Arguments
Y
Object containing point pattern data.
A point pattern (object of class
"ppp") or a fitted point process model
(object of class "ppm", "kppm" or "slrm").
fun
Function that computes the desired summary statistic
for a point pattern.
nsim
Number of simulated point patterns to be generated
when computing the envelopes.
nrank
Integer. Rank of the envelope value amongst the nsim simulated
values. A rank of 1 means that the minimum and maximum
simulated values will be used.
...
Extra arguments passed to fun.
funargs
A list, containing extra arguments to be passed to fun.
funYargs
Optional. A list, containing extra arguments to be passed to
fun when applied to the original data Y only.
simulate
Optional. Specifies how to generate the simulated point patterns.
If simulate is an expression in the R language, then this
expression will be evaluated nsim times,
to obtain nsim point patterns which are taken as the
simulated patterns from which the envelopes are computed.
If simulate is a function, then this function will be
repeatedly applied to the data pattern Y to obtain
nsim simulated patterns.
If simulate is a list of point patterns, then the entries
in this list will be treated as the simulated patterns from which
the envelopes are computed.
Alternatively simulate may be an object produced by the
envelope command: see Details.
fix.n
Logical. If TRUE, simulated patterns will have the
same number of points as the original data pattern.
This option is currently not available for envelope.kppm.
fix.marks
Logical. If TRUE, simulated patterns will have the
same number of points and the same marks as the
original data pattern. In a multitype point pattern this means that
the simulated patterns will have the same number of points
of each type as the original data.
This option is currently not available for envelope.kppm.
verbose
Logical flag indicating whether to print progress reports
during the simulations.
clipdata
Logical flag indicating whether the data point pattern should be
clipped to the same window as the simulated patterns,
before the summary function for the data is computed.
This should usually be TRUE to ensure that the
data and simulations are properly comparable.
start, control
Optional. These specify the arguments start and control
of rmh, giving complete control over the simulation
algorithm. Applicable only when Y is a fitted model
of class "ppm".
nrep
Number of iterations in the Metropolis-Hastings simulation
algorithm. Applicable only when Y is a fitted model
of class "ppm".
transform
Optional. A transformation to be applied to the
function values, before the envelopes are computed.
An expression object (see Details).
global
Logical flag indicating whether envelopes should be pointwise
(global=FALSE) or simultaneous (global=TRUE).
ginterval
Optional.
A vector of length 2 specifying
the interval of r values for the simultaneous critical
envelopes. Only relevant if global=TRUE.
use.theory
Logical value indicating whether to use the theoretical value,
computed by fun, as the reference value for simultaneous
envelopes. Applicable only when global=TRUE.
Default is use.theory=TRUE if Y is a point pattern,
or a point process model equivalent to Complete Spatial Randomness,
and use.theory=FALSE otherwise.
alternative
Character string determining whether the envelope corresponds
to a two-sided test (side="two.sided", the default)
or a one-sided test with a lower critical boundary
(side="less") or a one-sided test
with an upper critical boundary (side="greater").
scale
Optional. Scaling function for global envelopes.
A function in the R language which determines the
relative scale of deviations, as a function of
distance r, when computing the global envelopes.
Applicable only when global=TRUE.
Summary function values for distance r
will be divided by scale(r) before the
maximum deviation is computed. The resulting global envelopes
will have width proportional to scale(r).
clamp
Logical value indicating how to compute envelopes when
alternative="less" or alternative="greater".
Deviations of the observed
summary function from the theoretical summary function are initially
evaluated as signed real numbers, with large positive values indicating
consistency with the alternative hypothesis.
If clamp=FALSE (the default), these values are not changed.
If clamp=TRUE, any negative values are replaced by zero.
savefuns
Logical flag indicating whether to save all the simulated
function values.
savepatterns
Logical flag indicating whether to save all the simulated
point patterns.
nsim2
Number of extra simulated point patterns to be generated
if it is necessary to use simulation to estimate the theoretical
mean of the summary function. Only relevant when global=TRUE
and the simulations are not based on CSR.
VARIANCE
Logical. If TRUE, critical envelopes will be calculated
as sample mean plus or minus nSD times sample standard
deviation.
nSD
Number of estimated standard deviations used to determine
the critical envelopes, if VARIANCE=TRUE.
Yname
Character string that should be used as the name of the
data point pattern Y when printing or plotting the results.
maxnerr
Maximum number of rejected patterns.
If fun yields a fatal error when applied to a simulated point
pattern (for example, because the pattern is empty and fun
requires at least one point), the pattern will be rejected
and a new random point pattern will be generated. If this happens
more than maxnerr times, the algorithm will give up.
rejectNA
Logical value specifying whether to reject a simulated pattern
if the resulting values of fun are all equal to NA,
NaN or infinite. If FALSE (the default), then
simulated patterns are only rejected when fun gives a
fatal error.
silent
Logical value specifying whether to print a report each time
a simulated pattern is rejected.
do.pwrong
Logical. If TRUE, the algorithm will also estimate
the true significance level of the “wrong” test (the test that
declares the summary function for the data to be significant
if it lies outside the pointwise critical boundary at any
point). This estimate is printed when the result is printed.
envir.simul
Environment in which to evaluate the expression simulate,
if not the current environment.
Details
The envelope command performs simulations and
computes envelopes of a summary statistic based on the simulations.
The result is an object that can be plotted to display the envelopes.
The envelopes can be used to assess the goodness-of-fit of
a point process model to point pattern data.
For the most basic use, if you have a point pattern X and
you want to test Complete Spatial Randomness (CSR), type
plot(envelope(X, Kest,nsim=39)) to see the K function
for X plotted together with the envelopes of the
K function for 39 simulations of CSR.
The envelope function is generic, with methods for
the classes "ppp", "ppm", "kppm" and "slrm"
described here. There are also methods for the classes "pp3",
"lpp" and "lppm" which are described separately
under envelope.pp3
and envelope.lpp.
Envelopes can also be computed from other envelopes, using
envelope.envelope.
To create simulation envelopes, the command envelope(Y, ...)
first generates nsim random point patterns
in one of the following ways.
-
If Y is a point pattern (an object of class "ppp")
and simulate=NULL,
then we generate nsim simulations of
Complete Spatial Randomness (i.e. nsim simulated point patterns
each being a realisation of the uniform Poisson point process)
with the same intensity as the pattern Y.
(If Y is a multitype point pattern, then the simulated patterns
are also given independent random marks; the probability
distribution of the random marks is determined by the
relative frequencies of marks in Y.)
-
If Y is a fitted point process model (an object of class
"ppm" or "kppm" or "slrm") and simulate=NULL,
then this routine generates nsim simulated
realisations of that model.
-
If simulate is supplied, then it determines how the
simulated point patterns are generated. It may be either
-
an expression in the R language, typically containing a call
to a random generator. This expression will be evaluated
nsim times to yield nsim point patterns. For example
if simulate=expression(runifpoint(100)) then each simulated
pattern consists of exactly 100 independent uniform random points.
-
a function in the R language, typically containing a call to a
random generator. This function will be applied repeatedly
to the original data pattern Y to yield nsim point
patterns. For example if simulate=rlabel then each
simulated pattern was generated by evaluating rlabel(Y)
and consists of a randomly-relabelled version of Y.
-
a list of point patterns.
The entries in this list will be taken as the simulated patterns.
-
an object of class "envelope". This should have been
produced by calling envelope with the
argument savepatterns=TRUE.
The simulated point patterns that were saved in this object
will be extracted and used as the simulated patterns for the
new envelope computation. This makes it possible to plot envelopes
for two different summary functions based on exactly the same set of
simulated point patterns.
The summary statistic fun is applied to each of these simulated
patterns. Typically fun is one of the functions
Kest, Gest, Fest, Jest, pcf,
Kcross, Kdot, Gcross, Gdot,
Jcross, Jdot, Kmulti, Gmulti,
Jmulti or Kinhom. It may also be a character string
containing the name of one of these functions.
The statistic fun can also be a user-supplied function;
if so, then it must have arguments X and r
like those in the functions listed above, and it must return an object
of class "fv".
Upper and lower critical envelopes are computed in one of the following ways:
- pointwise:
by default, envelopes are calculated pointwise
(i.e. for each value of the distance argument r), by sorting the
nsim simulated values, and taking the m-th lowest
and m-th highest values, where m = nrank.
For example if nrank=1, the upper and lower envelopes
are the pointwise maximum and minimum of the simulated values.
The pointwise envelopes are not “confidence bands”
for the true value of the function! Rather,
they specify the critical points for a Monte Carlo test
(Ripley, 1981). The test is constructed by choosing a
fixed value of r, and rejecting the null hypothesis if the
observed function value
lies outside the envelope at this value of r.
This test has exact significance level
alpha = 2 * nrank/(1 + nsim).
- simultaneous:
if global=TRUE, then the envelopes are
determined as follows. First we calculate the theoretical mean value of
the summary statistic (if we are testing CSR, the theoretical
value is supplied by fun; otherwise we perform a separate
set of nsim2 simulations, compute the
average of all these simulated values, and take this average
as an estimate of the theoretical mean value). Then, for each simulation,
we compare the simulated curve to the theoretical curve, and compute the
maximum absolute difference between them (over the interval
of r values specified by ginterval). This gives a
deviation value d_i for each of the nsim
simulations. Finally we take the m-th largest of the
deviation values, where m=nrank, and call this
dcrit. Then the simultaneous envelopes are of the form
lo = expected - dcrit and hi = expected + dcrit where
expected is either the theoretical mean value theo
(if we are testing CSR) or the estimated theoretical value
mmean (if we are testing another model). The simultaneous critical
envelopes have constant width 2 * dcrit.
The simultaneous critical envelopes allow us to perform a different
Monte Carlo test (Ripley, 1981). The test rejects the null
hypothesis if the graph of the observed function
lies outside the envelope at any value of r.
This test has exact significance level
alpha = nrank/(1 + nsim).
This test can also be performed using mad.test.
- based on sample moments:
if VARIANCE=TRUE,
the algorithm calculates the
(pointwise) sample mean and sample variance of
the simulated functions. Then the envelopes are computed
as mean plus or minus nSD standard deviations.
These envelopes do not have an exact significance interpretation.
They are a naive approximation to
the critical points of the Neyman-Pearson test
assuming the summary statistic is approximately Normally
distributed.
The return value is an object of class "fv" containing
the summary function for the data point pattern,
the upper and lower simulation envelopes, and
the theoretical expected value (exact or estimated) of the summary function
for the model being tested. It can be plotted
using plot.envelope.
If VARIANCE=TRUE then the return value also includes the
sample mean, sample variance and other quantities.
Arguments can be passed to the function fun through
.... This means that you simply specify these arguments in the call to
envelope, and they will be passed to fun.
In particular, the argument correction
determines the edge correction to be used to calculate the summary
statistic. See the section on Edge Corrections, and the Examples.
Arguments can also be passed to the function fun
through the list funargs. This mechanism is typically used if
an argument of fun has the same name as an argument of
envelope. The list funargs should contain
entries of the form name=value, where each name is the name
of an argument of fun.
There is also an option, rarely used, in which different function
arguments are used when computing the summary function
for the data Y and for the simulated patterns.
If funYargs is given, it will be used
when the summary function for the data Y is computed,
while funargs will be used when computing the summary function
for the simulated patterns.
This option is only needed in rare cases: usually the basic principle
requires that the data and simulated patterns must be treated
equally, so that funargs and funYargs should be identical.
If Y is a fitted cluster point process model (object of
class "kppm"), and simulate=NULL,
then the model is simulated directly
using simulate.kppm.
If Y is a fitted Gibbs point process model (object of
class "ppm"), and simulate=NULL,
then the model is simulated
by running the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm rmh.
Complete control over this algorithm is provided by the
arguments start and control which are passed
to rmh.
For simultaneous critical envelopes (global=TRUE)
the following options are also useful:
gintervaldetermines the interval of r values
over which the deviation between curves is calculated.
It should be a numeric vector of length 2.
There is a sensible default (namely, the recommended plotting
interval for fun(X), or the range of r values if
r is explicitly specified).
transformspecifies a transformation of the
summary function fun that will be carried out before the
deviations are computed.
Such transforms are useful if global=TRUE or
VARIANCE=TRUE.
The transform must be an expression object
using the symbol . to represent the function value
(and possibly other symbols recognised by with.fv).
For example,
the conventional way to normalise the K function
(Ripley, 1981) is to transform it to the L function
L(r) = \sqrt{K(r)/\pi}
and this is implemented by setting
transform=expression(sqrt(./pi)).
It is also possible to extract the summary functions for each of the
individual simulated point patterns, by setting savefuns=TRUE.
Then the return value also
has an attribute "simfuns" containing all the
summary functions for the individual simulated patterns.
It is an "fv" object containing
functions named sim1, sim2, ... representing the nsim
summary functions.
It is also possible to save the simulated point patterns themselves,
by setting savepatterns=TRUE. Then the return value also has
an attribute "simpatterns" which is a list of length
nsim containing all the simulated point patterns.
See plot.envelope and plot.fv
for information about how to plot the envelopes.
Different envelopes can be recomputed from the same data
using envelope.envelope.
Envelopes can be combined using pool.envelope.
Value
An object of class "envelope"
and "fv", see fv.object,
which can be printed and plotted directly.
Essentially a data frame containing columns
r
the vector of values of the argument r
at which the summary function fun has been estimated
obs
values of the summary function for the data point pattern
lo
lower envelope of simulations
hi
upper envelope of simulations
and either
theo
theoretical value of the summary function under CSR
(Complete Spatial Randomness, a uniform Poisson point process)
if the simulations were generated according to CSR
mmean
estimated theoretical value of the summary function,
computed by averaging simulated values,
if the simulations were not generated according to CSR.
Additionally, if savepatterns=TRUE, the return value has an attribute
"simpatterns" which is a list containing the nsim
simulated patterns. If savefuns=TRUE, the return value
has an attribute "simfuns" which is an object of class
"fv" containing the summary functions
computed for each of the nsim simulated patterns.
Errors and warnings
An error may be generated if one of the simulations produces a
point pattern that is empty, or is otherwise unacceptable to the
function fun.
The upper envelope may be NA (plotted as plus or minus
infinity) if some of the function values
computed for the simulated point patterns are NA.
Whether this occurs will depend on the function fun,
but it usually happens when the simulated point pattern does not contain
enough points to compute a meaningful value.
Confidence intervals
Simulation envelopes do not compute confidence intervals;
they generate significance bands.
If you really need a confidence interval for the true summary function
of the point process, use lohboot.
See also varblock.
Edge corrections
It is common to apply a correction for edge effects when
calculating a summary function such as the K function.
Typically the user has a choice between several possible edge
corrections.
In a call to envelope, the user can specify the edge correction
to be applied in fun, using the argument correction.
See the Examples below.
- Summary functions in spatstat
-
Summary functions that are available in spatstat, such as
Kest, Gest and pcf,
have a standard argument called correction which specifies
the name of one or more edge corrections.
The list of available edge
corrections is different for each summary function,
and may also depend on the kind of window in which the point pattern is
recorded.
In the
case of Kest (the default and most frequently used value of
fun) the best edge correction is Ripley's isotropic
correction if the window is rectangular or polygonal,
and the translation correction if the window is a binary mask.
See the help files for the individual
functions for more information.
All the summary functions in spatstat
recognise the option correction="best"
which gives the “best” (most accurate) available edge correction
for that function.
In a call to envelope, if fun is one of the
summary functions provided in spatstat, then the default
is correction="best". This means that
by default, the envelope will be computed
using the “best” available edge correction.
The user can override this default by specifying the argument
correction. For example the computation can be accelerated
by choosing another edge correction which is less accurate
than the “best” one, but faster to compute.
- User-written summary functions
-
If fun is a function written by the user,
then envelope has to guess what to do.
If fun has an argument
called correction, or has ... arguments,
then envelope assumes that the function
can handle a correction argument. To compute the envelope,
fun will be called with a correction argument.
The default is correction="best", unless
overridden in the call to envelope.
Otherwise, if fun does not have an argument
called correction and does not have ... arguments,
then envelope assumes that the function
cannot handle a correction argument. To compute the
envelope, fun is called without a correction argument.
Author(s)
\spatstatAuthors.
References
Baddeley, A., Diggle, P.J., Hardegen, A., Lawrence, T., Milne,
R.K. and Nair, G. (2014) On tests of spatial pattern based on
simulation envelopes. Ecological Monographs 84 (3) 477–489.
Cressie, N.A.C. Statistics for spatial data.
John Wiley and Sons, 1991.
Diggle, P.J. Statistical analysis of spatial point patterns.
Arnold, 2003.
Ripley, B.D. (1981)
Spatial statistics.
John Wiley and Sons.
Ripley, B.D. Statistical inference for spatial processes.
Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Stoyan, D. and Stoyan, H. (1994)
Fractals, random shapes and point fields:
methods of geometrical statistics.
John Wiley and Sons.
See Also
dclf.test,
mad.test
for envelope-based tests.
fv.object,
plot.envelope,
plot.fv,
envelope.envelope,
pool.envelope
for handling envelopes.
There are also methods for print and summary.
Kest,
Gest,
Fest,
Jest,
pcf,
ppp,
ppm,
default.expand
Examples
X <- simdat
online <- interactive()
Nsim <- if(online) 19 else 3
# Envelope of K function for simulations from Gibbs model
if(online) {
fit <- ppm(cells ~1, Strauss(0.05))
plot(envelope(fit))
plot(envelope(fit, global=TRUE))
} else {
fit <- ppm(cells ~1, Strauss(0.05), nd=20)
E <- envelope(fit, nsim=Nsim, correction="border", nrep=100)
E <- envelope(fit, nsim=Nsim, correction="border", global=TRUE, nrep=100)
}
# Envelope of K function for simulations from cluster model
fit <- kppm(redwood ~1, "Thomas")
if(online) {
plot(envelope(fit, Gest))
plot(envelope(fit, Gest, global=TRUE))
} else {
E <- envelope(fit, Gest, correction="rs", nsim=Nsim, global=TRUE, nrep=100)
}
# Envelope of INHOMOGENEOUS K-function with fitted trend
# The following is valid.
# Setting lambda=fit means that the fitted model is re-fitted to
# each simulated pattern to obtain the intensity estimates for Kinhom.
# (lambda=NULL would also be valid)
fit <- kppm(redwood ~1, clusters="MatClust")
if(online) {
plot(envelope(fit, Kinhom, lambda=fit, nsim=19))
} else {
envelope(fit, Kinhom, lambda=fit, nsim=Nsim)
}
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Simulation Envelopes of Summary Function
Description
Computes simulation envelopes of a summary function.
Usage
## S3 method for class 'ppm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL, fix.n=FALSE, fix.marks=FALSE,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
start=NULL, control=update(default.rmhcontrol(Y), nrep=nrep), nrep=1e5,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
## S3 method for class 'kppm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
## S3 method for class 'slrm'
envelope(Y, fun=Kest, nsim=99, nrank=1, ...,
funargs=list(), funYargs=funargs,
simulate=NULL,
verbose=TRUE, clipdata=TRUE,
transform=NULL, global=FALSE, ginterval=NULL, use.theory=NULL,
alternative=c("two.sided", "less", "greater"),
scale=NULL, clamp=FALSE,
savefuns=FALSE, savepatterns=FALSE,
nsim2=nsim, VARIANCE=FALSE, nSD=2, Yname=NULL,
maxnerr=nsim, rejectNA=FALSE, silent=FALSE,
do.pwrong=FALSE, envir.simul=NULL)
Arguments
Y |
Object containing point pattern data.
A point pattern (object of class
|
fun |
Function that computes the desired summary statistic for a point pattern. |
nsim |
Number of simulated point patterns to be generated when computing the envelopes. |
nrank |
Integer. Rank of the envelope value amongst the |
... |
Extra arguments passed to |
funargs |
A list, containing extra arguments to be passed to |
funYargs |
Optional. A list, containing extra arguments to be passed to
|
simulate |
Optional. Specifies how to generate the simulated point patterns.
If |
fix.n |
Logical. If |
fix.marks |
Logical. If |
verbose |
Logical flag indicating whether to print progress reports during the simulations. |
clipdata |
Logical flag indicating whether the data point pattern should be
clipped to the same window as the simulated patterns,
before the summary function for the data is computed.
This should usually be |
start, control |
Optional. These specify the arguments |
nrep |
Number of iterations in the Metropolis-Hastings simulation
algorithm. Applicable only when |
transform |
Optional. A transformation to be applied to the function values, before the envelopes are computed. An expression object (see Details). |
global |
Logical flag indicating whether envelopes should be pointwise
( |
ginterval |
Optional.
A vector of length 2 specifying
the interval of |
use.theory |
Logical value indicating whether to use the theoretical value,
computed by |
alternative |
Character string determining whether the envelope corresponds
to a two-sided test ( |
scale |
Optional. Scaling function for global envelopes.
A function in the R language which determines the
relative scale of deviations, as a function of
distance |
clamp |
Logical value indicating how to compute envelopes when
|
savefuns |
Logical flag indicating whether to save all the simulated function values. |
savepatterns |
Logical flag indicating whether to save all the simulated point patterns. |
nsim2 |
Number of extra simulated point patterns to be generated
if it is necessary to use simulation to estimate the theoretical
mean of the summary function. Only relevant when |
VARIANCE |
Logical. If |
nSD |
Number of estimated standard deviations used to determine
the critical envelopes, if |
Yname |
Character string that should be used as the name of the
data point pattern |
maxnerr |
Maximum number of rejected patterns.
If |
rejectNA |
Logical value specifying whether to reject a simulated pattern
if the resulting values of |
silent |
Logical value specifying whether to print a report each time a simulated pattern is rejected. |
do.pwrong |
Logical. If |
envir.simul |
Environment in which to evaluate the expression |
Details
The envelope command performs simulations and
computes envelopes of a summary statistic based on the simulations.
The result is an object that can be plotted to display the envelopes.
The envelopes can be used to assess the goodness-of-fit of
a point process model to point pattern data.
For the most basic use, if you have a point pattern X and
you want to test Complete Spatial Randomness (CSR), type
plot(envelope(X, Kest,nsim=39)) to see the K function
for X plotted together with the envelopes of the
K function for 39 simulations of CSR.
The envelope function is generic, with methods for
the classes "ppp", "ppm", "kppm" and "slrm"
described here. There are also methods for the classes "pp3",
"lpp" and "lppm" which are described separately
under envelope.pp3
and envelope.lpp.
Envelopes can also be computed from other envelopes, using
envelope.envelope.
To create simulation envelopes, the command envelope(Y, ...)
first generates nsim random point patterns
in one of the following ways.
-
If
Yis a point pattern (an object of class"ppp") andsimulate=NULL, then we generatensimsimulations of Complete Spatial Randomness (i.e.nsimsimulated point patterns each being a realisation of the uniform Poisson point process) with the same intensity as the patternY. (IfYis a multitype point pattern, then the simulated patterns are also given independent random marks; the probability distribution of the random marks is determined by the relative frequencies of marks inY.) -
If
Yis a fitted point process model (an object of class"ppm"or"kppm"or"slrm") andsimulate=NULL, then this routine generatesnsimsimulated realisations of that model. -
If
simulateis supplied, then it determines how the simulated point patterns are generated. It may be either-
an expression in the R language, typically containing a call to a random generator. This expression will be evaluated
nsimtimes to yieldnsimpoint patterns. For example ifsimulate=expression(runifpoint(100))then each simulated pattern consists of exactly 100 independent uniform random points. -
a function in the R language, typically containing a call to a random generator. This function will be applied repeatedly to the original data pattern
Yto yieldnsimpoint patterns. For example ifsimulate=rlabelthen each simulated pattern was generated by evaluatingrlabel(Y)and consists of a randomly-relabelled version ofY. -
a list of point patterns. The entries in this list will be taken as the simulated patterns.
-
an object of class
"envelope". This should have been produced by callingenvelopewith the argumentsavepatterns=TRUE. The simulated point patterns that were saved in this object will be extracted and used as the simulated patterns for the new envelope computation. This makes it possible to plot envelopes for two different summary functions based on exactly the same set of simulated point patterns.
-
The summary statistic fun is applied to each of these simulated
patterns. Typically fun is one of the functions
Kest, Gest, Fest, Jest, pcf,
Kcross, Kdot, Gcross, Gdot,
Jcross, Jdot, Kmulti, Gmulti,
Jmulti or Kinhom. It may also be a character string
containing the name of one of these functions.
The statistic fun can also be a user-supplied function;
if so, then it must have arguments X and r
like those in the functions listed above, and it must return an object
of class "fv".
Upper and lower critical envelopes are computed in one of the following ways:
- pointwise:
by default, envelopes are calculated pointwise (i.e. for each value of the distance argument
r), by sorting thensimsimulated values, and taking them-th lowest andm-th highest values, wherem = nrank. For example ifnrank=1, the upper and lower envelopes are the pointwise maximum and minimum of the simulated values.The pointwise envelopes are not “confidence bands” for the true value of the function! Rather, they specify the critical points for a Monte Carlo test (Ripley, 1981). The test is constructed by choosing a fixed value of
r, and rejecting the null hypothesis if the observed function value lies outside the envelope at this value ofr. This test has exact significance levelalpha = 2 * nrank/(1 + nsim).- simultaneous:
if
global=TRUE, then the envelopes are determined as follows. First we calculate the theoretical mean value of the summary statistic (if we are testing CSR, the theoretical value is supplied byfun; otherwise we perform a separate set ofnsim2simulations, compute the average of all these simulated values, and take this average as an estimate of the theoretical mean value). Then, for each simulation, we compare the simulated curve to the theoretical curve, and compute the maximum absolute difference between them (over the interval ofrvalues specified byginterval). This gives a deviation valued_ifor each of thensimsimulations. Finally we take them-th largest of the deviation values, wherem=nrank, and call thisdcrit. Then the simultaneous envelopes are of the formlo = expected - dcritandhi = expected + dcritwhereexpectedis either the theoretical mean valuetheo(if we are testing CSR) or the estimated theoretical valuemmean(if we are testing another model). The simultaneous critical envelopes have constant width2 * dcrit.The simultaneous critical envelopes allow us to perform a different Monte Carlo test (Ripley, 1981). The test rejects the null hypothesis if the graph of the observed function lies outside the envelope at any value of
r. This test has exact significance levelalpha = nrank/(1 + nsim).This test can also be performed using
mad.test.- based on sample moments:
if
VARIANCE=TRUE, the algorithm calculates the (pointwise) sample mean and sample variance of the simulated functions. Then the envelopes are computed as mean plus or minusnSDstandard deviations. These envelopes do not have an exact significance interpretation. They are a naive approximation to the critical points of the Neyman-Pearson test assuming the summary statistic is approximately Normally distributed.
The return value is an object of class "fv" containing
the summary function for the data point pattern,
the upper and lower simulation envelopes, and
the theoretical expected value (exact or estimated) of the summary function
for the model being tested. It can be plotted
using plot.envelope.
If VARIANCE=TRUE then the return value also includes the
sample mean, sample variance and other quantities.
Arguments can be passed to the function fun through
.... This means that you simply specify these arguments in the call to
envelope, and they will be passed to fun.
In particular, the argument correction
determines the edge correction to be used to calculate the summary
statistic. See the section on Edge Corrections, and the Examples.
Arguments can also be passed to the function fun
through the list funargs. This mechanism is typically used if
an argument of fun has the same name as an argument of
envelope. The list funargs should contain
entries of the form name=value, where each name is the name
of an argument of fun.
There is also an option, rarely used, in which different function
arguments are used when computing the summary function
for the data Y and for the simulated patterns.
If funYargs is given, it will be used
when the summary function for the data Y is computed,
while funargs will be used when computing the summary function
for the simulated patterns.
This option is only needed in rare cases: usually the basic principle
requires that the data and simulated patterns must be treated
equally, so that funargs and funYargs should be identical.
If Y is a fitted cluster point process model (object of
class "kppm"), and simulate=NULL,
then the model is simulated directly
using simulate.kppm.
If Y is a fitted Gibbs point process model (object of
class "ppm"), and simulate=NULL,
then the model is simulated
by running the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm rmh.
Complete control over this algorithm is provided by the
arguments start and control which are passed
to rmh.
For simultaneous critical envelopes (global=TRUE)
the following options are also useful:
gintervaldetermines the interval of
rvalues over which the deviation between curves is calculated. It should be a numeric vector of length 2. There is a sensible default (namely, the recommended plotting interval forfun(X), or the range ofrvalues ifris explicitly specified).transformspecifies a transformation of the summary function
funthat will be carried out before the deviations are computed. Such transforms are useful ifglobal=TRUEorVARIANCE=TRUE. Thetransformmust be an expression object using the symbol.to represent the function value (and possibly other symbols recognised bywith.fv). For example, the conventional way to normalise theKfunction (Ripley, 1981) is to transform it to theLfunctionL(r) = \sqrt{K(r)/\pi}and this is implemented by settingtransform=expression(sqrt(./pi)).
It is also possible to extract the summary functions for each of the
individual simulated point patterns, by setting savefuns=TRUE.
Then the return value also
has an attribute "simfuns" containing all the
summary functions for the individual simulated patterns.
It is an "fv" object containing
functions named sim1, sim2, ... representing the nsim
summary functions.
It is also possible to save the simulated point patterns themselves,
by setting savepatterns=TRUE. Then the return value also has
an attribute "simpatterns" which is a list of length
nsim containing all the simulated point patterns.
See plot.envelope and plot.fv
for information about how to plot the envelopes.
Different envelopes can be recomputed from the same data
using envelope.envelope.
Envelopes can be combined using pool.envelope.
Value
An object of class "envelope"
and "fv", see fv.object,
which can be printed and plotted directly.
Essentially a data frame containing columns
r |
the vector of values of the argument |
obs |
values of the summary function for the data point pattern |
lo |
lower envelope of simulations |
hi |
upper envelope of simulations |
and either
theo |
theoretical value of the summary function under CSR (Complete Spatial Randomness, a uniform Poisson point process) if the simulations were generated according to CSR |
mmean |
estimated theoretical value of the summary function, computed by averaging simulated values, if the simulations were not generated according to CSR. |
Additionally, if savepatterns=TRUE, the return value has an attribute
"simpatterns" which is a list containing the nsim
simulated patterns. If savefuns=TRUE, the return value
has an attribute "simfuns" which is an object of class
"fv" containing the summary functions
computed for each of the nsim simulated patterns.
Errors and warnings
An error may be generated if one of the simulations produces a
point pattern that is empty, or is otherwise unacceptable to the
function fun.
The upper envelope may be NA (plotted as plus or minus
infinity) if some of the function values
computed for the simulated point patterns are NA.
Whether this occurs will depend on the function fun,
but it usually happens when the simulated point pattern does not contain
enough points to compute a meaningful value.
Confidence intervals
Simulation envelopes do not compute confidence intervals;
they generate significance bands.
If you really need a confidence interval for the true summary function
of the point process, use lohboot.
See also varblock.
Edge corrections
It is common to apply a correction for edge effects when
calculating a summary function such as the K function.
Typically the user has a choice between several possible edge
corrections.
In a call to envelope, the user can specify the edge correction
to be applied in fun, using the argument correction.
See the Examples below.
- Summary functions in spatstat
-
Summary functions that are available in spatstat, such as
Kest,Gestandpcf, have a standard argument calledcorrectionwhich specifies the name of one or more edge corrections.The list of available edge corrections is different for each summary function, and may also depend on the kind of window in which the point pattern is recorded. In the case of
Kest(the default and most frequently used value offun) the best edge correction is Ripley's isotropic correction if the window is rectangular or polygonal, and the translation correction if the window is a binary mask. See the help files for the individual functions for more information.All the summary functions in spatstat recognise the option
correction="best"which gives the “best” (most accurate) available edge correction for that function.In a call to
envelope, iffunis one of the summary functions provided in spatstat, then the default iscorrection="best". This means that by default, the envelope will be computed using the “best” available edge correction.The user can override this default by specifying the argument
correction. For example the computation can be accelerated by choosing another edge correction which is less accurate than the “best” one, but faster to compute. - User-written summary functions
-
If
funis a function written by the user, thenenvelopehas to guess what to do.If
funhas an argument calledcorrection, or has...arguments, thenenvelopeassumes that the function can handle a correction argument. To compute the envelope,funwill be called with acorrectionargument. The default iscorrection="best", unless overridden in the call toenvelope.Otherwise, if
fundoes not have an argument calledcorrectionand does not have...arguments, thenenvelopeassumes that the function cannot handle a correction argument. To compute the envelope,funis called without a correction argument.
Author(s)
\spatstatAuthors.
References
Baddeley, A., Diggle, P.J., Hardegen, A., Lawrence, T., Milne, R.K. and Nair, G. (2014) On tests of spatial pattern based on simulation envelopes. Ecological Monographs 84 (3) 477–489.
Cressie, N.A.C. Statistics for spatial data. John Wiley and Sons, 1991.
Diggle, P.J. Statistical analysis of spatial point patterns. Arnold, 2003.
Ripley, B.D. (1981) Spatial statistics. John Wiley and Sons.
Ripley, B.D. Statistical inference for spatial processes. Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Stoyan, D. and Stoyan, H. (1994) Fractals, random shapes and point fields: methods of geometrical statistics. John Wiley and Sons.
See Also
dclf.test,
mad.test
for envelope-based tests.
fv.object,
plot.envelope,
plot.fv,
envelope.envelope,
pool.envelope
for handling envelopes.
There are also methods for print and summary.
Kest,
Gest,
Fest,
Jest,
pcf,
ppp,
ppm,
default.expand
Examples
X <- simdat
online <- interactive()
Nsim <- if(online) 19 else 3
# Envelope of K function for simulations from Gibbs model
if(online) {
fit <- ppm(cells ~1, Strauss(0.05))
plot(envelope(fit))
plot(envelope(fit, global=TRUE))
} else {
fit <- ppm(cells ~1, Strauss(0.05), nd=20)
E <- envelope(fit, nsim=Nsim, correction="border", nrep=100)
E <- envelope(fit, nsim=Nsim, correction="border", global=TRUE, nrep=100)
}
# Envelope of K function for simulations from cluster model
fit <- kppm(redwood ~1, "Thomas")
if(online) {
plot(envelope(fit, Gest))
plot(envelope(fit, Gest, global=TRUE))
} else {
E <- envelope(fit, Gest, correction="rs", nsim=Nsim, global=TRUE, nrep=100)
}
# Envelope of INHOMOGENEOUS K-function with fitted trend
# The following is valid.
# Setting lambda=fit means that the fitted model is re-fitted to
# each simulated pattern to obtain the intensity estimates for Kinhom.
# (lambda=NULL would also be valid)
fit <- kppm(redwood ~1, clusters="MatClust")
if(online) {
plot(envelope(fit, Kinhom, lambda=fit, nsim=19))
} else {
envelope(fit, Kinhom, lambda=fit, nsim=Nsim)
}
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