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Faster estimation of the Knorr-Held Type IV space-time model
Fredrik Lohne Aanes, Geir Storvik
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In this paper we study the type IV Knorr Held space time models. Such models typically apply intrinsic Markov random fields and constraints are imposed for identifiability. INLA is an efficient inference tool for such models where constraints are dealt with through a conditioning by kriging approach. When the number of spatial and/or temporal time points become large, it becomes computationally expensive to fit such models, partly due to the number of constraints involved. We propose a new approach, HyMiK, dividing constraints into two separate sets where one part is treated through a mixed effect approach while the other one is approached by the standard conditioning by kriging method, resulting in a more efficient procedure for dealing with constraints. The new approach is easy to apply based on existing implementations of INLA. We run the model on simulated data, on a real data set containing dengue fever cases in Brazil and another real data set of confirmed positive test cases of Covid-19 in the counties of Norway. For all cases we get very similar results when comparing the new approach with the tradition one while at the same time obtaining a significant increase in computational speed, varying on a factor from 2 to 4, depending on the sizes of the data sets.
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