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MRF penalty from polygon or multi-polygon simple features

Source: R/penalties_spatial.R
mrf_penalty.sf.Rd

MRF penalty from polygon or multi-polygon simple features

Usage

# S3 method for class 'sf'
mrf_penalty(
  object,
  model = "icar",
  node_labels = NULL,
  buffer = NULL,
  delta = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

object

an R object to create the MRF penalty from.

model

character; one of "full" or "individual" indicating if a fully connected graph ("full") or a random effect (random intercepts; "individual") penalty is created.

node_labels

character; a vector of alternative labels for the levels of the factor.

buffer

numeric; buffer distance for all or for individual elements of the geometry. See argument dist in sf::st_buffer for details.

delta

numeric or logical; either the numeric value to add to the diagonal of the MRF penalty matrix, or a logical value indicating if such an adjustment should be made. The default is to not alter the diagonal of the penalty matrix.

...

arguments passed to other methods.