Geyer's Saturation Point Process Model
Creates an instance of Geyer's saturation point process model which can then be fitted to point pattern data.
Geyer(r,sat)
r |
Interaction radius. A positive real number. |
sat |
Saturation threshold. A non-negative real number. |
Geyer (1999) introduced the “saturation process”,
a modification of the Strauss process (see Strauss)
in which the total contribution
to the potential from each point (from its pairwise interaction with all
other points) is trimmed to a maximum value s.
The interaction structure of this
model is implemented in the function Geyer().
The saturation point process with interaction radius r, saturation threshold s, and parameters beta and gamma, is the point process in which each point x[i] in the pattern X contributes a factor
beta gamma^min(s, t(x[i],X))
to the probability density of the point pattern, where t(x[i],X) denotes the number of ‘close neighbours’ of x[i] in the pattern X. A close neighbour of x[i] is a point x[j] with j != i such that the distance between x[i] and x[j] is less than or equal to r.
If the saturation threshold s is set to infinity,
this model reduces to the Strauss process (see Strauss)
with interaction parameter gamma^2.
If s = 0, the model reduces to the Poisson point process.
If s is a finite positive number, then the interaction parameter
gamma may take any positive value (unlike the case
of the Strauss process), with
values gamma < 1
describing an ‘ordered’ or ‘inhibitive’ pattern,
and
values gamma > 1
describing a ‘clustered’ or ‘attractive’ pattern.
The nonstationary saturation process is similar except that the value beta is replaced by a function beta(x[i]) of location.
The function ppm(), which fits point process models to
point pattern data, requires an argument
of class "interact" describing the interpoint interaction
structure of the model to be fitted.
The appropriate description of the saturation process interaction is
yielded by Geyer(r, sat) where the
arguments r and sat specify
the Strauss interaction radius r and the saturation threshold
s, respectively. See the examples below.
Note the only arguments are the interaction radius r
and the saturation threshold sat.
When r and sat are fixed,
the model becomes an exponential family.
The canonical parameters log(beta)
and log(gamma)
are estimated by ppm(), not fixed in
Geyer().
An object of class "interact"
describing the interpoint interaction
structure of Geyer's saturation point process
with interaction radius r and saturation threshold sat.
The value sat=0 is permitted by Geyer,
but this is not very useful.
For technical reasons, when ppm fits a
Geyer model with sat=0, the default behaviour is to return
an “invalid” fitted model in which the estimate of
gamma is NA. In order to get a Poisson
process model returned when sat=0,
you would need to set emend=TRUE in
the call to ppm.
Adrian Baddeley Adrian.Baddeley@curtin.edu.au and Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz
Geyer, C.J. (1999) Likelihood Inference for Spatial Point Processes. Chapter 3 in O.E. Barndorff-Nielsen, W.S. Kendall and M.N.M. Van Lieshout (eds) Stochastic Geometry: Likelihood and Computation, Chapman and Hall / CRC, Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, number 80. Pages 79–140.
ppm(cells, ~1, Geyer(r=0.07, sat=2)) # fit the stationary saturation process to `cells'
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