RSTr - Gibbs Samplers for Discrete Bayesian Spatiotemporal Models
Takes Poisson or Binomial discrete spatial data and runs a
Gibbs sampler for a variety of Spatiotemporal Conditional
Autoregressive (CAR) models. Includes measures to prevent
estimate over-smoothing through a restriction of model
informativeness for select models. Also provides tools to load
output and get median estimates. Implements methods from Besag,
York, and Mollié (1991) "Bayesian image restoration, with two
applications in spatial statistics" <doi:10.1007/BF00116466>,
Gelfand and Vounatsou (2003) "Proper multivariate conditional
autoregressive models for spatial data analysis"
<doi:10.1093/biostatistics/4.1.11>, Quick et al. (2017)
"Multivariate spatiotemporal modeling of age-specific stroke
mortality" <doi:10.1214/17-AOAS1068>, and Quick et al. (2021)
"Evaluating the informativeness of the Besag-York-Mollié CAR
model" <doi:10.1016/j.sste.2021.100420>.