Hardcore {spatstat}R Documentation

The Hard Core Point Process Model

Description

Creates an instance of the hard core point process model which can then be fitted to point pattern data.

Usage

  Hardcore(hc)

Arguments

hc

The hard core distance

Details

A hard core process with hard core distance h < r and abundance parameter beta is a pairwise interaction point process in which distinct points are not allowed to come closer than a distance h apart.

The probability density is zero if any pair of points is closer than h units apart, and otherwise equals

f(x_1,…,x_n) = alpha . beta^n(x)

where x[1],…,x[n] represent the points of the pattern, n(x) is the number of points in the pattern, and alpha is the normalising constant.

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 hard core process pairwise interaction is yielded by the function Hardcore(). See the examples below.

Value

An object of class "interact" describing the interpoint interaction structure of the hard core process with hard core distance hc.

Author(s)

Adrian Baddeley Adrian.Baddeley@csiro.au http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/~adrian/ and Rolf Turner r.turner@auckland.ac.nz

References

Baddeley, A. and Turner, R. (2000) Practical maximum pseudolikelihood for spatial point patterns. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics 42, 283–322.

Ripley, B.D. (1981) Spatial statistics. John Wiley and Sons.

See Also

Strauss, StraussHard, MultiHard, ppm, pairwise.family, ppm.object

Examples

   Hardcore(0.02)
   # prints a sensible description of itself

   data(cells)

   ## Not run: 
   ppm(cells, ~1, Hardcore(0.05))
   # fit the stationary hard core process to `cells'
   
## End(Not run)

   ppm(cells, ~ polynom(x,y,3), Hardcore(0.05))
   # fit a nonstationary hard core process
   # with log-cubic polynomial trend

[Package spatstat version 1.25-3 Index]