setupPrecMatStruct: setupPrecMatStruct function

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setupPrecMatStruct function

Description

A function to set up the computational grid and precision matrix structure for SPDE models.

Usage

setupPrecMatStruct(shape, cellwidth, no)

Arguments

shape

an object of class SpatialPolygons or SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

cellwidth

a scalar, the width of the grid cells

no

the order of the SPDE approximation: see Lindgren et al 2011 for details

Value

the computational grid and a function for constructing the precision matrix

References

  1. Benjamin M. Taylor and Barry S. Rowlingson (2017). spatsurv: An R Package for Bayesian Inference with Spatial Survival Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 77(4), 1-32, doi:10.18637/jss.v077.i04.

  2. Finn Lindgren, Havard Rue, Johan Lindstrom. An explicit link between Gaussian fields and Gaussian Markov random fields: the stochastic partial differential equation approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B 73(4)


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