IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/jss/jstsof/v063i09.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Analysis of Random Fields Using CompRandFld

Author

Listed:
  • Padoan, Simone A.
  • Bevilacqua, Moreno

Abstract

Statistical analysis based on random fields has become a widely used approach in order to better understand real processes in many fields such as engineering, environmental sciences, etc. Data analysis based on random fields can be sometimes problematic to carry out from the inferential prospective. Examples are when dealing with: large dataset, counts or binary responses and extreme values data. This article explains how to perform, with the R package CompRandFld, challenging statistical analysis based on Gaussian, binary and max-stable random fields. The software provides tools for performing the statistical inference based on the composite likelihood in complex problems where standard likelihood methods are difficult to apply. The principal features are illustrated by means of simulation examples and an application of Irish daily wind speeds.

Suggested Citation

  • Padoan, Simone A. & Bevilacqua, Moreno, 2015. "Analysis of Random Fields Using CompRandFld," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 63(i09).
    • Handle: RePEc:jss:jstsof:v:063:i09
    DOI: http://hdl.handle.net/10.18637/jss.v063.i09
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/v063i09/v63i09.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/downloadSuppFile/v063i09/CompRandFld_1.0.3-4.tar.gz
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/downloadSuppFile/v063i09/v63i09.R
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/http://hdl.handle.net/10.18637/jss.v063.i09?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Richard E. Chandler & Steven Bate, 2007. "Inference for clustered data using the independence loglikelihood," Biometrika, Biometrika Trust, vol. 94(1), pages 167-183.
    2. Kabluchko, Zakhar, 2009. "Extremes of space-time Gaussian processes," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 119(11), pages 3962-3980, November.
    3. Kaufman, Cari G. & Schervish, Mark J. & Nychka, Douglas W., 2008. "Covariance Tapering for Likelihood-Based Estimation in Large Spatial Data Sets," Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association, vol. 103(484), pages 1545-1555.
    4. Fuentes, Montserrat, 2007. "Approximate Likelihood for Large Irregularly Spaced Spatial Data," Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association, vol. 102, pages 321-331, March.
    5. Porcu, Emilio & Mateu, Jorge & Christakos, George, 2009. "Quasi-arithmetic means of covariance functions with potential applications to space-time data," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(8), pages 1830-1844, September.
    6. Michael L. Stein & Zhiyi Chi & Leah J. Welty, 2004. "Approximating likelihoods for large spatial data sets," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 66(2), pages 275-296, May.
    7. Opitz, T., 2013. "Extremal t processes: Elliptical domain of attraction and a spectral representation," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 122(C), pages 409-413.
    8. Noel Cressie & Gardar Johannesson, 2008. "Fixed rank kriging for very large spatial data sets," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 70(1), pages 209-226, February.
    9. Furrer, Reinhard & Sain, Stephan R., 2010. "spam: A Sparse Matrix R Package with Emphasis on MCMC Methods for Gaussian Markov Random Fields," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 36(i10).
    10. Padoan, S. A. & Ribatet, M. & Sisson, S. A., 2010. "Likelihood-Based Inference for Max-Stable Processes," Journal of the American Statistical Association, American Statistical Association, vol. 105(489), pages 263-277.
    11. Schlather, Martin & Malinowski, Alexander & Menck, Peter J. & Oesting, Marco & Strokorb, Kirstin, 2015. "Analysis, Simulation and Prediction of Multivariate Random Fields with Package RandomFields," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 63(i08).
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Mohammad Ghorbani & Ottmar Cronie & Jorge Mateu & Jun Yu, 2021. "Functional marked point processes: a natural structure to unify spatio-temporal frameworks and to analyse dependent functional data," TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 30(3), pages 529-568, September.
    2. Emilio Porcu & Moreno Bevilacqua & Marc G. Genton, 2016. "Spatio-Temporal Covariance and Cross-Covariance Functions of the Great Circle Distance on a Sphere," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 111(514), pages 888-898, April.
    3. Moreno Bevilacqua & Ronny Vallejos & Daira Velandia, 2015. "Assessing the significance of the correlation between the components of a bivariate Gaussian random field," Environmetrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 26(8), pages 545-556, December.
    4. M. Bevilacqua & A. Fassò & C. Gaetan & E. Porcu & D. Velandia, 2016. "Covariance tapering for multivariate Gaussian random fields estimation," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 25(1), pages 21-37, March.
    5. D'Angelo, Nicoletta & Adelfio, Giada & Mateu, Jorge, 2023. "Locally weighted minimum contrast estimation for spatio-temporal log-Gaussian Cox processes," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 180(C).
    6. Pebesma, Edzer & Bivand, Roger & Ribeiro, Paulo Justiniano, 2015. "Software for Spatial Statistics," Journal of Statistical Software, Foundation for Open Access Statistics, vol. 63(i01).
    7. Nicoletta D’Angelo & Giada Adelfio & Jorge Mateu, 2023. "Local inhomogeneous second-order characteristics for spatio-temporal point processes occurring on linear networks," Statistical Papers, Springer, vol. 64(3), pages 779-805, June.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Matthias Katzfuss, 2017. "A Multi-Resolution Approximation for Massive Spatial Datasets," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 112(517), pages 201-214, January.
    2. Matthew J. Heaton & Abhirup Datta & Andrew O. Finley & Reinhard Furrer & Joseph Guinness & Rajarshi Guhaniyogi & Florian Gerber & Robert B. Gramacy & Dorit Hammerling & Matthias Katzfuss & Finn Lindgr, 2019. "A Case Study Competition Among Methods for Analyzing Large Spatial Data," Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Springer;The International Biometric Society;American Statistical Association, vol. 24(3), pages 398-425, September.
    3. Sameh Abdulah & Yuxiao Li & Jian Cao & Hatem Ltaief & David E. Keyes & Marc G. Genton & Ying Sun, 2023. "Large‐scale environmental data science with ExaGeoStatR," Environmetrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 34(1), February.
    4. Furrer, Reinhard & Bachoc, François & Du, Juan, 2016. "Asymptotic properties of multivariate tapering for estimation and prediction," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 177-191.
    5. Giovanna Jona Lasinio & Gianluca Mastrantonio & Alessio Pollice, 2013. "Discussing the “big n problem”," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 22(1), pages 97-112, March.
    6. Litvinenko, Alexander & Sun, Ying & Genton, Marc G. & Keyes, David E., 2019. "Likelihood approximation with hierarchical matrices for large spatial datasets," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 137(C), pages 115-132.
    7. Matthias Katzfuss & Joseph Guinness & Wenlong Gong & Daniel Zilber, 2020. "Vecchia Approximations of Gaussian-Process Predictions," Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics, Springer;The International Biometric Society;American Statistical Association, vol. 25(3), pages 383-414, September.
    8. Andrew Finley & Sudipto Banerjee & Alan Gelfand, 2012. "Bayesian dynamic modeling for large space-time datasets using Gaussian predictive processes," Journal of Geographical Systems, Springer, vol. 14(1), pages 29-47, January.
    9. Eidsvik, Jo & Finley, Andrew O. & Banerjee, Sudipto & Rue, Håvard, 2012. "Approximate Bayesian inference for large spatial datasets using predictive process models," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 56(6), pages 1362-1380.
    10. Morales-Oñate, Víctor & Crudu, Federico & Bevilacqua, Moreno, 2021. "Blockwise Euclidean likelihood for spatio-temporal covariance models," Econometrics and Statistics, Elsevier, vol. 20(C), pages 176-201.
    11. Jialuo Liu & Tingjin Chu & Jun Zhu & Haonan Wang, 2022. "Large spatial data modeling and analysis: A Krylov subspace approach," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 49(3), pages 1115-1143, September.
    12. Sudipto Banerjee & Alan E. Gelfand & Andrew O. Finley & Huiyan Sang, 2008. "Gaussian predictive process models for large spatial data sets," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 70(4), pages 825-848, September.
    13. Arthur P. Guillaumin & Adam M. Sykulski & Sofia C. Olhede & Frederik J. Simons, 2022. "The Debiased Spatial Whittle likelihood," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 84(4), pages 1526-1557, September.
    14. Zilber, Daniel & Katzfuss, Matthias, 2021. "Vecchia–Laplace approximations of generalized Gaussian processes for big non-Gaussian spatial data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 153(C).
    15. Jun, Mikyoung, 2014. "Matérn-based nonstationary cross-covariance models for global processes," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 134-146.
    16. M. Bevilacqua & A. Fassò & C. Gaetan & E. Porcu & D. Velandia, 2016. "Covariance tapering for multivariate Gaussian random fields estimation," Statistical Methods & Applications, Springer;Società Italiana di Statistica, vol. 25(1), pages 21-37, March.
    17. Guhaniyogi, Rajarshi & Banerjee, Sudipto, 2019. "Multivariate spatial meta kriging," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 3-8.
    18. Andrew O. Finley & Sudipto Banerjee & Patrik Waldmann & Tore Ericsson, 2009. "Hierarchical Spatial Modeling of Additive and Dominance Genetic Variance for Large Spatial Trial Datasets," Biometrics, The International Biometric Society, vol. 65(2), pages 441-451, June.
    19. Håvard Rue & Sara Martino & Nicolas Chopin, 2009. "Approximate Bayesian inference for latent Gaussian models by using integrated nested Laplace approximations," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 71(2), pages 319-392, April.
    20. Karl Pazdernik & Ranjan Maitra & Douglas Nychka & Stephan Sain, 2018. "Reduced Basis Kriging for Big Spatial Fields," Sankhya A: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Springer;Indian Statistical Institute, vol. 80(2), pages 280-300, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:jss:jstsof:v:063:i09. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F. Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.jstatsoft.org/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.