spautolm: Spatial conditional and simultaneous autoregression model...

In spdep: Spatial Dependence: Weighting Schemes, Statistics and Models

Description

Function taking family and weights arguments for spatial autoregression model estimation by Maximum Likelihood, using dense matrix methods, not suited to large data sets with thousands of observations. With one of the sparse matrix methods, larger numbers of observations can be handled, but the interval= argument should be set. The implementation is GLS using the single spatial coefficient value, here termed lambda, found by line search using optimize to maximise the log likelihood.

Usage

spautolm(formula, data = list(), listw, weights,
 na.action, family = "SAR", method="eigen", verbose = NULL, trs=NULL,
 interval=NULL, zero.policy = NULL, tol.solve=.Machine$double.eps,
 llprof=NULL, control=list())
## S3 method for class 'spautolm'
summary(object, correlation = FALSE, adj.se=FALSE,
 Nagelkerke=FALSE, ...)

Arguments

formula	a symbolic description of the model to be fit. The details of model specification are given for lm()
data	an optional data frame containing the variables in the model. By default the variables are taken from the environment which the function is called.
listw	a listw object created for example by nb2listw
weights	an optional vector of weights to be used in the fitting process
na.action	a function (default options("na.action")), can also be na.omit or na.exclude with consequences for residuals and fitted values - in these cases the weights list will be subsetted to remove NAs in the data. Note that only weights lists created without using the glist argument to nb2listw may be subsetted.
family	character string: either "SAR" or "CAR" for simultaneous or conditional autoregressions; "SMA" for spatial moving average added thanks to Jielai Ma - "SMA" is only implemented for method="eigen" because it necessarily involves dense matrices
method	character string: default "eigen" for use of dense matrices, "Matrix_J" for sparse matrices (restricted to spatial weights symmetric or similar to symmetric) using methods in the Matrix package; “Matrix” provides updating Cholesky decomposition methods. Values of method may also include "LU", which provides an alternative sparse matrix decomposition approach, and the "Chebyshev" and Monte Carlo "MC" approximate log-determinant methods.
verbose	default NULL, use global option value; if TRUE, reports function values during optimization.
trs,	default NULL, if given, a vector of powered spatial weights matrix traces output by trW; when given, used in some Jacobian methods
interval	search interval for autoregressive parameter when not using method="eigen"; default is c(-1,0.999), optimize will reset NA/NaN to a bound and gives a warning when the interval is poorly set; method="Matrix" will attempt to search for an appropriate interval, if find\_interval=TRUE (fails on some platforms)
zero.policy	default NULL, use global option value; Include list of no-neighbour observations in output if TRUE — otherwise zero.policy is handled within the listw argument
tol.solve	the tolerance for detecting linear dependencies in the columns of matrices to be inverted - passed to solve() (default=double precision machine tolerance). Errors in solve() may constitute indications of poorly scaled variables: if the variables have scales differing much from the autoregressive coefficient, the values in this matrix may be very different in scale, and inverting such a matrix is analytically possible by definition, but numerically unstable; rescaling the RHS variables alleviates this better than setting tol.solve to a very small value
llprof	default NULL, can either be an integer, to divide the feasible range into llprof points, or a sequence of spatial coefficient values, at which to evaluate the likelihood function
control	list of extra control arguments - see section below
object	spautolm object from spautolm
correlation	logical; if 'TRUE', the correlation matrix of the estimated parameters is returned and printed (default=FALSE)
adj.se	if TRUE, adjust the coefficient standard errors for the number of fitted coefficients
Nagelkerke	if TRUE, the Nagelkerke pseudo R-squared is reported
...	further arguments passed to or from other methods

Details

This implementation is based on lm.gls and errorsarlm. In particular, the function does not (yet) prevent asymmetric spatial weights being used with "CAR" family models. It appears that both numerical issues (convergence in particular) and uncertainties about the exact spatial weights matrix used make it difficult to reproduce Cressie and Chan's 1989 results, also given in Cressie 1993.

Note that the fitted() function for the output object assumes that the response variable may be reconstructed as the sum of the trend, the signal, and the noise (residuals). Since the values of the response variable are known, their spatial lags are used to calculate signal components (Cressie 1993, p. 564). This differs from other software, including GeoDa, which does not use knowledge of the response variable in making predictions for the fitting data.

Value

A list object of class spautolm:

fit	a list, with items: coefficients ML coefficient estimates SSE ML sum of squared errors s2 ML residual variance imat ML coefficient covariance matrix (before multiplying by s2) signal\_trend non-spatial component of fitted.values signal\_stochastic spatial component of fitted.values fitted.values sum of non-spatial and spatial components of fitted.values residuals difference between observed and fitted values
lambda	ML autoregressive coefficient
LL	log likelihood for fitted model
LL0	log likelihood for model with lambda=0
call	the call used to create this object
parameters	number of parameters estimated
aliased	if not NULL, details of aliased variables
method	Jacobian method chosen
family	family chosen
zero.policy	zero.policy used
weights	case weights used
interval	the line search interval used
timings	processing timings
na.action	(possibly) named vector of excluded or omitted observations if non-default na.action argument used
llprof	if not NULL, a list with components lambda and ll of equal length
lambda.se	Numerical Hessian-based standard error of lambda
fdHess	Numerical Hessian-based variance-covariance matrix
X	covariates used in model fitting
Y	response used in model fitting
weights	weights used in model fitting

Control arguments

tol.opt:

the desired accuracy of the optimization - passed to optimize() (default=.Machine$double.eps^(2/3))

fdHess:

default NULL, then set to (method != "eigen") internally; use fdHess to compute an approximate Hessian using finite differences when using sparse matrix methods; used to make a coefficient covariance matrix when the number of observations is large; may be turned off to save resources if need be

optimHess:

default FALSE, use fdHess from nlme, if TRUE, use optim to calculate Hessian at optimum

optimHessMethod:

default “optimHess”, may be “nlm” or one of the optim methods

Imult:

default 2; used for preparing the Cholesky decompositions for updating in the Jacobian function

super:

if NULL (default), set to FALSE to use a simplicial decomposition for the sparse Cholesky decomposition and method “Matrix_J”, set to as.logical(NA) for method “Matrix”, if TRUE, use a supernodal decomposition

cheb_q:

default 5; highest power of the approximating polynomial for the Chebyshev approximation

MC_p:

default 16; number of random variates

MC_m:

default 30; number of products of random variates matrix and spatial weights matrix

type

default “MC”, used with method “moments”; alternatives “mult” and “moments”, for use if trs is missing, trW

correct

default TRUE, used with method “moments” to compute the Smirnov/Anselin correction term

trunc

default TRUE, used with method “moments” to truncate the Smirnov/Anselin correction term

SE_method

default “LU”, may be “MC”

nrho

default 200, as in SE toolbox; the size of the first stage lndet grid; it may be reduced to for example 40

interpn

default 2000, as in SE toolbox; the size of the second stage lndet grid

small_asy

default TRUE; if the method is not “eigen”, use asymmetric covariances rather than numerical Hessian ones if n <= small

small

default 1500; threshold number of observations for asymmetric covariances when the method is not “eigen”

SElndet

default NULL, may be used to pass a pre-computed SE toolbox style matrix of coefficients and their lndet values to the "SE_classic" and "SE_whichMin" methods

LU_order

default FALSE; used in “LU_prepermutate”, note warnings given for lu method

pre_eig

default NULL; may be used to pass a pre-computed vector of eigenvalues

Note

The standard errors given in Waller and Gotway (2004) are adjusted for the numbers of parameters estimated, and may be reproduced by using the additional argument adj.se=TRUE in the summary method. In addition, the function returns fitted values and residuals as given by Cressie (1993) p. 564.

Author(s)

Roger Bivand [e-mail]

References

Cliff, A. D., Ord, J. K. 1981 Spatial processes, Pion; Ord, J. K. 1975 Estimation methods for models of spatial interaction, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 70, 120-126; Waller, L. A., Gotway, C. A. 2004 Applied spatial statistics for public health, Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 325-380; Cressie, N. A. C. 1993 Statistics for spatial data, Wiley, New York, 548-568; Ripley, B. D. 1981 Spatial statistics, Wiley, New York, 88-95; LeSage J and RK Pace (2009) Introduction to Spatial Econometrics. CRC Press, Boca Raton.

See Also

optimize, errorsarlm, do_ldet

Examples

example(NY_data)
lm0 <- lm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata)
summary(lm0)
lm0w <- lm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata, weights=POP8)
summary(lm0w)
esar0 <- errorsarlm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY)
summary(esar0)
system.time(esar1f <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, family="SAR", method="eigen", verbose=TRUE))
res <- summary(esar1f)
print(res)
sqrt(diag(res$resvar))
sqrt(diag(esar1f$fit$imat)*esar1f$fit$s2)
sqrt(diag(esar1f$fdHess))
system.time(esar1M <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, family="SAR", method="Matrix", verbose=TRUE))
summary(esar1M)
## Not run: 
system.time(esar1M <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, family="SAR", method="Matrix", verbose=TRUE,
 control=list(super=TRUE)))
summary(esar1M)
esar1wf <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY, weights=POP8, family="SAR", method="eigen")
summary(esar1wf)
system.time(esar1wM <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, weights=POP8, family="SAR", method="Matrix"))
summary(esar1wM)
esar1wlu <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY, weights=POP8, family="SAR", method="LU")
summary(esar1wlu)
esar1wch <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY, weights=POP8, family="SAR", method="Chebyshev")
summary(esar1wch)
ecar1f <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY, family="CAR", method="eigen")
summary(ecar1f)
system.time(ecar1M <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, family="CAR", method="Matrix"))
summary(ecar1M)
ecar1wf <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME, data=nydata,
 listw=listw_NY, weights=nydata$POP8, family="CAR", method="eigen")
summary(ecar1wf)
system.time(ecar1wM <- spautolm(Z ~ PEXPOSURE + PCTAGE65P + PCTOWNHOME,
 data=nydata, listw=listw_NY, weights=POP8, family="CAR", method="Matrix"))
summary(ecar1wM)
example(nc.sids)
ft.SID74 <- sqrt(1000)*(sqrt(nc.sids$SID74/nc.sids$BIR74) +
 sqrt((nc.sids$SID74+1)/nc.sids$BIR74))
lm_nc <- lm(ft.SID74 ~ 1)
sids.nhbr30 <- dnearneigh(cbind(nc.sids$east, nc.sids$north), 0, 30, row.names=row.names(nc.sids))
sids.nhbr30.dist <- nbdists(sids.nhbr30, cbind(nc.sids$east, nc.sids$north))
sids.nhbr <- listw2sn(nb2listw(sids.nhbr30, glist=sids.nhbr30.dist, style="B", zero.policy=TRUE))
dij <- sids.nhbr[,3]
n <- nc.sids$BIR74
el1 <- min(dij)/dij
el2 <- sqrt(n[sids.nhbr$to]/n[sids.nhbr$from])
sids.nhbr$weights <- el1*el2
sids.nhbr.listw <- sn2listw(sids.nhbr)
both <- factor(paste(nc.sids$L_id, nc.sids$M_id, sep=":"))
ft.NWBIR74 <- sqrt(1000)*(sqrt(nc.sids$NWBIR74/nc.sids$BIR74) +
 sqrt((nc.sids$NWBIR74+1)/nc.sids$BIR74))
mdata <- data.frame(both, ft.NWBIR74, ft.SID74, BIR74=nc.sids$BIR74)
outl <- which.max(rstandard(lm_nc))
as.character(nc.sids$names[outl])
mdata.4 <- mdata[-outl,]
W <- listw2mat(sids.nhbr.listw)
W.4 <- W[-outl, -outl]
sids.nhbr.listw.4 <- mat2listw(W.4)
esarI <- errorsarlm(ft.SID74 ~ 1, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 zero.policy=TRUE)
summary(esarI)
esarIa <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ 1, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 family="SAR")
summary(esarIa)
esarIV <- errorsarlm(ft.SID74 ~ ft.NWBIR74, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 zero.policy=TRUE)
summary(esarIV)
esarIVa <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ ft.NWBIR74, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 family="SAR")
summary(esarIVa)
esarIaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ 1, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 weights=BIR74, family="SAR")
summary(esarIaw)
esarIIaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ both - 1, data=mdata, listw=sids.nhbr.listw,
 weights=BIR74, family="SAR")
summary(esarIIaw)
esarIVaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ ft.NWBIR74, data=mdata,
 listw=sids.nhbr.listw, weights=BIR74, family="SAR")
summary(esarIVaw)
ecarIaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ 1, data=mdata.4, listw=sids.nhbr.listw.4,
 weights=BIR74, family="CAR")
summary(ecarIaw)
ecarIIaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ both - 1, data=mdata.4,
 listw=sids.nhbr.listw.4, weights=BIR74, family="CAR")
summary(ecarIIaw)
ecarIVaw <- spautolm(ft.SID74 ~ ft.NWBIR74, data=mdata.4,
 listw=sids.nhbr.listw.4, weights=BIR74, family="CAR")
summary(ecarIVaw)
nc.sids$fitIV <- append(fitted.values(ecarIVaw), NA, outl-1)
spplot(nc.sids, c("fitIV"), cuts=12) # Cressie 1993, p. 565
data(oldcol)
COL.errW.eig <- errorsarlm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="W"))
summary(COL.errW.eig)
COL.errW.sar <- spautolm(CRIME ~ INC + HOVAL, data=COL.OLD,
 nb2listw(COL.nb, style="W"))
summary(COL.errW.sar)
data(boston)
gp1 <- spautolm(log(CMEDV) ~ CRIM + ZN + INDUS + CHAS + I(NOX^2)
 + I(RM^2) + AGE + log(DIS) + log(RAD) + TAX + PTRATIO + B + log(LSTAT), 
 data=boston.c, nb2listw(boston.soi), family="SMA")
summary(gp1)

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