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Maximum likelihood estimation for generalized conditionally autoregressive models of spatial data
Affiliation:1. Department of Statistics, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract:Conditionally autoregressive (CAR) models are often used to analyze a spatial process observed over a lattice or a set of irregular regions. The neighborhoods within a CAR model are generally formed deterministically using the inter-distances or boundaries between the regions. To accommodate directional and inherent anisotropy variation, a new class of spatial models is proposed that adaptively determines neighbors based on a bivariate kernel using the distances and angles between the centroid of the regions. The newly proposed model generalizes the usual CAR model in a sense of accounting for adaptively determined weights. Maximum likelihood estimators are derived and simulation studies are presented for the sampling properties of the estimates on the new model, which is compared to the CAR model. Finally the method is illustrated using a data set on the elevated blood lead levels of children under the age of 72 months observed in Virginia in the year of 2000.
Keywords:Conditionally autoregressive models  Kernel estimator  Lattice data  Maximum likelihood estimation  Spatial analysis
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