estimateDistFun {Chicago}R Documentation

Estimate the Distance Function

Description

Estimates the function that models how the expected number of counts decreases with increasing distance.

Usage

estimateDistFun(cd, method = "cubic", plot = TRUE, outfile = NULL)

Arguments

cd

A chicagoData object.

method

Choice of method: "cubic" is currently the only allowed option, which fits a cubic function with linear extrapolation, on a log-log scale.

plot

Output a diagnostic plot.

outfile

If NULL, plot to current device. Otherwise, plot to the .pdf file outfile.

Details

By default, we look in 75 distance bins, and a cubic fit is used. For distances that lie outside of the bin boundaries, it is assumed that the function is log-linear, with continuity of f and its first derivative on the log-scale.

Value

An object of class chicagoData, with the parameters of the distance function present as params(cd)$distFunParams.

Author(s)

Mikhail Spivakov, Jonathan Cairns, Paula Freire Pritchett

See Also

chicagoPipeline, plotDistFun

Examples

data(cdUnitTest)
estimateDistFun(cdUnitTest)

[Package Chicago version 1.18.0 Index]