EBlocal: Local Empirical Bayes estimator
In spdep: Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

The function computes local empirical Bayes estimates for rates "shrunk" to a neighbourhood mean for neighbourhoods given by the nb neighbourhood list.

1	EBlocal(ri, ni, nb, zero.policy = NULL, spChk = NULL, geoda=FALSE)

`ri`	a numeric vector of counts of cases the same length as the neighbours list in nb
`ni`	a numeric vector of populations at risk the same length as the neighbours list in nb
`nb`	a `nb` object of neighbour relationships
`zero.policy`	default NULL, use global option value; if TRUE assign zero to the lagged value of zones without neighbours, if FALSE assign NA
`spChk`	should the data vector names be checked against the spatial objects for identity integrity, TRUE, or FALSE, default NULL to use `get.spChkOption()`
`geoda`	default=FALSE, following Marshall's algorithm as interpreted by Bailey and Gatrell, pp. 305-307, and exercise 8.2, pp. 328-330 for the definition of phi; TRUE for the definition of phi used in GeoDa (see discussion on OpenSpace mailing list June 2003: http://agec221.agecon.uiuc.edu/pipermail/openspace/2003-June/thread.html)

Details of the implementation are to be found in Marshall, p. 286, and Bailey and Gatrell p. 307 and exercise 8.2, pp. 328–330. The example results do not fully correspond to the sources because of slightly differing neighbourhoods, but are generally close.

A data frame with two columns:

`raw`	a numerical vector of raw (crude) rates
`est`	a numerical vector of local empirical Bayes estimates

and a parameters attribute list with components:

`a`	a numerical vector of local phi values
`m`	a numerical vector of local gamma values

Roger Bivand Roger.Bivand@nhh.no, based on contributions by Marilia Carvalho

Marshall R M (1991) Mapping disease and mortality rates using Empirical Bayes Estimators, Applied Statistics, 40, 283–294; Bailey T, Gatrell A (1995) Interactive Spatial Data Analysis, Harlow: Longman, pp. 303–306.

EBest, probmap

example(auckland)
res <- EBlocal(auckland$M77_85,  9*auckland$Und5_81, auckland.nb)
brks <- c(-Inf,2,2.5,3,3.5,Inf)
cols <- grey(6:2/7)
plot(auckland, col=cols[findInterval(res$est*1000, brks, all.inside=TRUE)])
legend("bottomleft", fill=cols, legend=leglabs(brks), bty="n")
title(main="Local moment estimator of infant mortality per 1000 per year")

Loading required package: sp
Loading required package: Matrix

acklnd> require(maptools)
Loading required package: maptools
Checking rgeos availability: TRUE

acklnd> auckland <- readShapePoly(system.file("etc/shapes/auckland.shp",
acklnd+  package="spdep")[1])

acklnd> auckland.nb <- poly2nb(auckland)
Warning message:
use rgdal::readOGR or sf::st_read