stModel.define: Define a spacetime model object for the 'f()' call.

In eliaskrainski/INLAspacetime: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Models using 'INLA'

Define a spacetime model object for the f() call.

Description

Define a spacetime model object for the f() call.

Usage

stModel.define(
  smesh,
  tmesh,
  model,
  control.priors,
  constr = FALSE,
  debug = FALSE,
  useINLAprecomp = TRUE,
  libpath = NULL
)

Arguments

smesh	a spatial mesh
tmesh	a temporal mesh
model	a three characters string to specify the smoothness alpha (each one as integer) parameters. Currently it considers the 102, 121, 202 and 220 models.
control.priors	a named list with parameter priors, named as prs, prt and psigma, each one as a vector with length two containing (U, a) to define the corresponding PC-prior such that, respectively, P(range.spatial<U)=a, P(range.temporal<U)=a or P(sigma>U)=a. If a=0 or a=NA, then U is taken to be the fixed value of the parameter.
constr	logical, default is FALSE, to indicate if the integral of the field over the domain is to be constrained to zero.
debug	integer, default is zero, indicating the verbose level. Will be used as logical by INLA.
useINLAprecomp	logical, default is TRUE, indicating if it is to be used the shared object pre-compiled by INLA. This is not considered if 'libpath' is provided.
libpath	string, default is NULL, with the path to the shared object.

Details

This function compute the matrices for computing the precision matrix. These are each one of the Kronecker products in Theorem 4.1 of Lindgren et. al. (2024) computed with the stModel.matrices and the parameters are as in Eq (19-21). We use the log of these parameters internally.

Value

objects to be used in the f() formula term in INLA.

References

Finn Lindgren, Haakon Bakka, David Bolin, Elias Krainski and Håvard Rue (2024). A diffusion-based spatio-temporal extension of Gaussian Matérn fields. SORT vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 3-66 <doi: 10.57645/20.8080.02.13>

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