Analysing spatial point patterns in R - CSIRO
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208 Multitype Poisson models<br />
You’ll notice that the parameter estimates ̂β m co<strong>in</strong>cide with those obta<strong>in</strong>ed fromsummary.ppp<br />
above. That is a consequence of the fact that the maximum likelihood estimates (obta<strong>in</strong>ed by<br />
ppm) are also the method-of-moments estimates (obta<strong>in</strong>ed by summary.ppp).<br />
A more complicated example is<br />
> ppm(lans<strong>in</strong>g, ~marks + x)<br />
Nonstationary multitype Poisson process<br />
Possible marks:<br />
blackoak hickory maple misc redoak whiteoak<br />
Trend formula: ~marks + x<br />
Fitted coefficients for trend formula:<br />
(Intercept) markshickory marksmaple marksmisc marksredoak<br />
4.94294727 1.65008211 1.33694849 -0.25131442 0.94116400<br />
markswhiteoak x<br />
1.19951845 -0.07581624<br />
This is the marked Poisson process whose <strong>in</strong>tensity function λ((x,y,m)) at location (x,y)<br />
and mark m satisfies<br />
log λ((x,y,m)) = α m + βx<br />
where α 1 ,...,α 6 and β are parameters. The <strong>in</strong>tensity is logl<strong>in</strong>ear <strong>in</strong> x, with a different <strong>in</strong>tercept<br />
for each mark, but the same slope (“parallel logl<strong>in</strong>ear regression”). In the pr<strong>in</strong>tout above, the<br />
fitted slope parameter β is ˆβ =-0.07581624. As discussed <strong>in</strong> Section 15.3 on page 98, the fitted<br />
coefficients α m for the categorical mark are <strong>in</strong>terpreted <strong>in</strong> the light of the ‘contrasts’ <strong>in</strong> force.<br />
The default is the treatment contrasts, and the first level of the mark is blackoak, so <strong>in</strong> this<br />
case the fitted coefficient for m=blackoak is 4.942947, while the fitted coefficient for m=hickory<br />
is 4.942947 + 1.650082 = 6.593029 and so on.<br />
> ppm(lans<strong>in</strong>g, ~marks * x)<br />
Nonstationary multitype Poisson process<br />
Possible marks:<br />
blackoak hickory maple misc redoak whiteoak<br />
Trend formula: ~marks * x<br />
Fitted coefficients for trend formula:<br />
(Intercept) markshickory marksmaple marksmisc marksredoak<br />
5.2378062 1.4424915 0.6795604 -0.8482907 0.6916392<br />
markswhiteoak x markshickory:x marksmaple:x marksmisc:x<br />
1.0901772 -0.7063987 0.4511157 1.3243326 1.2138278<br />
marksredoak:x markswhiteoak:x<br />
0.5380413 0.2421379<br />
The symbol * here is an ‘<strong>in</strong>teraction’ <strong>in</strong> the usual sense for l<strong>in</strong>ear models. The fitted model<br />
is the marked Poisson process with<br />
log λ((x,y,m)) = α m + β m x<br />
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