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Analysing spatial point patterns in R - CSIRO

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27.6 Deal<strong>in</strong>g with nuisance parameters 169<br />

Stationary Strauss process<br />

First order term:<br />

beta<br />

301.0949<br />

Interaction: Strauss process<br />

<strong>in</strong>teraction distance: 0.0836293018068393<br />

Fitted <strong>in</strong>teraction parameter gamma: 0<br />

Relevant coefficients:<br />

Interaction<br />

-20.77031<br />

The analogue of profile likelihood, profile pseudolikelihood, provides a general solution which<br />

may or may not perform well. If θ = (φ,η) where φ denotes the nuisance parameters and η the<br />

regular parameters, def<strong>in</strong>e the profile log pseudolikelihood by<br />

PPL(φ,x) = max log PL ((φ,η);x) .<br />

η<br />

The right hand side can be computed, for each fixed value of φ, by the algorithm ppm. Then we<br />

just have to maximise PPL(φ) over φ. This is done by the command profilepl:<br />

> data(simdat)<br />

> df pfit pfit<br />

Profile log pseudolikelihood values<br />

for model: ppm(simdat, ~1, <strong>in</strong>teraction = Strauss)<br />

fitted with rbord= 2<br />

Interaction: Strauss<br />

with irregular parameter r <strong>in</strong> [0.05, 2]<br />

Optimum value of irregular parameter: r = 0.275<br />

The result is an object of class profilepl conta<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g the profile log pseudolikelihood function,<br />

the optimised value of the irregular parameter r, and the f<strong>in</strong>al fitted model. To plot the<br />

profile log pseudolikelihood,<br />

> plot(pfit)<br />

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