STIKhat: Estimation of the Space-Time Inhomogeneous K-function

In stpp: Space-Time Point Pattern Simulation, Visualisation and Analysis

Estimation of the Space-Time Inhomogeneous K-function

Description

Compute an estimate of the Space-Time Inhomogeneous K-function.

Usage

STIKhat(xyt, s.region, t.region, dist, times, lambda, 
correction="isotropic", infectious=FALSE) 

Arguments

xyt	Coordinates and times (x,y,t) of the point pattern.
s.region	Two-column matrix specifying polygonal region containing all data locations. If s.region is missing, the bounding box of xyt[,1:2] is considered.
t.region	Vector containing the minimum and maximum values of the time interval. If t.region is missing, the range of xyt[,3] is considered.
dist	Vector of distances u at which K(u,v) is computed. If missing, the maximum of dist is given by min(S_x, S_y)/4, where S_x and S_y represent the maximum width and height of the bounding box of s.region.
times	Vector of times v at which K(u,v) is computed. If missing, the maximum of times is given by (T_max - T_min)/4, where T_min and T_max are the minimum and maximum of the time interval T.
lambda	Vector of values of the space-time intensity function evaluated at the points (x,y,t) in S x T. If lambda is missing, the estimate of the space-time K-function is computed as for the homogeneous case (Diggle et al., 1995), i.e. considering n/|S x T| as an estimate of the space-time intensity.
correction	A character vector specifying the edge correction(s) to be applied among "isotropic", "border", "modified.border", "translate" and "none" (see Details). The default is "isotropic".
infectious	Logical value. If TRUE, only future events are considered and the isotropic edge correction method is used. See Details.

Details

Gabriel (2014) proposes the following unbiased estimator for the STIK-function, based on data giving the locations of events x_i: i = 1,...,n on a spatio-temporal region SxT, where S is an arbitrary polygon and T is a time interval:

K(u,v) = sum_{i = 1,...,n} sum_{j != i} 1/w_ij 1/(lambda(x_i) lambda(x_j)) 1{u_ij <= u ; t_j - t_i <= v},

where lambda(x_i) is the intensity at x_i = (s_i, t_i) and w_ij is an edge correction factor to deal with spatial-temporal edge effects. The edge correction methods implemented are:

isotropic: w_ij = |S x T| w_ij^(s) w_ij^(t), where the temporal edge correction factor w_ij^(t) = 1 if both ends of the interval of length 2|t_i - t_j| centred at t_i lie within T and w_ij^(t) = 1/2 otherwise and w_ij^(s) is the proportion of the circumference of a circle centred at the location s_i with radius ||s_i - s_j|| lying in S (also called Ripley's edge correction factor).

border: w_ij = (sum_{j = 1,...,n} 1{d(s_j, S) > u ; d(t_j, T) > v}/ lambda(x_j)) / 1{d(s_i, S) > u ; d(t_i, T) > v}, where d(s_i, S) denotes the distance between s_i and the boundary of S and d(t_i, T) the distance between t_i and the boundary of T.

modified.border: w_ij = |S_(-u) x T_(-v)| / 1{d(s_i, S) > u ; d(t_i, T) > v}, where S_(-u) and T_(-v) are the eroded spatial and temporal region respectively, obtained by trimming off a margin of width u and v from the border of the original region.

translate: w_ij = |S intersect S_(s_i - s_j) x T intersect T_(t_i - t_j)|, where S_(s_i - s_j) and T_(t_ i - t_j) are the translated spatial and temporal regions.

none: No edge correction is performed and w_ij = |S x T|.

If parameter infectious = TRUE, ony future events are considered and the estimator is, using an isotropic edge correction factor (Gabriel and Diggle, 2009):

K(u,v) = 1/|SxT| n/n_v sum_{i = 1,...,n_v} sum_{j = 1,...,n_v; j > i} 1/w_ij 1/(lambda(x_i) lambda(x_j)) 1{u_ij <= u} 1{t_j - t_i <= v}.

In this equation, the points x_i = (s_i, t_i) are ordered so that t_i < t_(i+1), with ties due to round-off error broken by randomly unrounding if necessary. To deal with temporal edge-effects, for each v, n_v denotes the number of events for which t_i <= T_1 - v, with T=[T_0, T_1]. To deal with spatial edge-effects, we use Ripley's method.

If lambda is missing in argument, STIKhat computes an estimate of the space-time (homogeneous) K-function:

K(u,v) = |SxT|/(n_v (n-1)) sum_{i = 1,...,n_v} sum_{j = 1,...,n_v; j > i} 1/w_ij 1{u_ij <= u} 1{t_j - t_i <= v}

Value

A list containing:

Khat	ndist x ntimes matrix containing values of K(u,v).
Ktheo	ndist x ntimes matrix containing theoretical values for a Poisson process; pi u^2 v for K and 2 pi u^2 v for K^*.
dist, times, infectious	Parameters passed in argument.
correction	The name(s) of the edge correction method(s) passed in argument.

Author(s)

Edith Gabriel <[e-mail]>

References

Baddeley A., Moller J. and Waagepetersen R. (2000). Non- and semi-parametric estimation of interaction in inhomogeneous point patterns. Statistica Neerlandica, 54, 329–350.

Baddeley, A., Rubak, E., Turner, R., (2015). Spatial Point Patterns: Methodology and Applications with R. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

Diggle P. , Chedwynd A., Haggkvist R. and Morris S. (1995). Second-order analysis of space-time clustering. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 4, 124–136.

Gabriel E., Diggle P. (2009). Second-order analysis of inhomogeneous spatio-temporal point process data. Statistica Neerlandica, 63, 43–51.

Gabriel E., Rowlingson B., Diggle P. (2013). stpp: an R package for plotting, simulating and analyzing Spatio-Temporal Point Patterns. Journal of Statistical Software, 53(2), 1–29.

Gabriel E. (2014). Estimating second-order characteristics of inhomogeneous spatio-temporal point processes: influence of edge correction methods and intensity estimates. Methodology and computing in Applied Probabillity, 16(2), 411–431.

Examples

# First example

data(fmd)
data(northcumbria)
FMD<-as.3dpoints(fmd[,1]/1000,fmd[,2]/1000,fmd[,3])
Northcumbria=northcumbria/1000

# estimation of the temporal intensity
Mt<-density(FMD[,3],n=1000)
mut<-Mt$y[findInterval(FMD[,3],Mt$x)]*dim(FMD)[1]

# estimation of the spatial intensity
h<-mse2d(as.points(FMD[,1:2]), Northcumbria, nsmse=50, range=4)
h<-h$h[which.min(h$mse)]
Ms<-kernel2d(as.points(FMD[,1:2]), Northcumbria, h, nx=5000, ny=5000)
atx<-findInterval(x=FMD[,1],vec=Ms$x)
aty<-findInterval(x=FMD[,2],vec=Ms$y)
mhat<-NULL
for(i in 1:length(atx)) mhat<-c(mhat,Ms$z[atx[i],aty[i]])

# estimation of the STIK function
u <- seq(0,10,by=1)
v <- seq(0,15,by=1)
stik1 <- STIKhat(xyt=FMD, s.region=northcumbria/1000,t.region=c(1,200), 
lambda=mhat*mut/dim(FMD)[1], dist=u, times=v, infectious=TRUE)

# plotting the estimation
plotK(stik1)
plotK(stik1,type="persp",theta=-65,phi=35)
 
# Second example

xyt=rpp(lambda=200)
stik2=STIKhat(xyt$xyt,dist=seq(0,0.16,by=0.02),
times=seq(0,0.16,by=0.02),correction=c("border","translate"))
plotK(stik2,type="contour",legend=TRUE,which="translate")

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