Joint variable selection of both fixed and random effects for Gaussian process-based spatially varying coefficient models

Autor: Dambon, Jakob A, Sigrist, Fabio, Furrer, Reinhard
Přispěvatelé: University of Zurich, Dambon, Jakob A
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 36:2525-2548
ISSN: 1362-3087
1365-8816
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2022.2097684
Popis: Spatially varying coefficient (SVC) models are a type of regression model for spatial data where covariate effects vary over space. If there are several covariates, a natural question is which covariates have a spatially varying effect and which not. We present a new variable selection approach for Gaussian process-based SVC models. It relies on a penalized maximum likelihood estimation (PMLE) and allows variable selection both with respect to fixed effects and Gaussian process random effects. We validate our approach both in a simulation study as well as a real world data set. Our novel approach shows good selection performance in the simulation study. In the real data application, our proposed PMLE yields sparser SVC models and achieves a smaller information criterion than classical MLE. In a cross-validation applied on the real data, we show that sparser PML estimated SVC models are on par with ML estimated SVC models with respect to predictive performance.
Comment: 26 pages including appendix. Containing 6 figures and 6 tables. Updated Declarations
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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