Hi List, This question has come up with the past, but I have yet to find a clear response, so I'm going to ask myself. Has anyone had much experience with spatial interaction models, specifically in the form of Poisson regression? I'm a bit unsure of how to operationalize this using glm(), and would appreciate any pointers from those with more experience.
Basically, the conventional origin constrained model would look something like this: T_{ij} = exp(\delta_{i} + \log{A_{j}} - \beta D_{ij}) ~ \varepsilon_{ij} where \delta_{i} is a constant parameter specific to the ith zone, A_{j} is the attractiveness of the jth location, and D_{ij} is the distance between i and j. Note that \varepsilon_{ij} is just the multiplicative error term of the flow from i to j, and \beta is the distance decay parameter. Similarly, the doubly constrained model follows the form: T_{ij} = exp(\delta_{i} + \gamma_{j} - \beta D_{ij}) ~ \varepsilon_{ij} where everything is defined as above, except exp(\gamma_{j}) is an estimate of the attractiveness of location A_{j}. Hopefully the above description makes things a bit clearer, essentially my question is this: What factors or in what form do I have to have my data in order to be able to run such a model following the glm syntax? I know this should be relatively straight-forward, I just can't seem to get my head wrapped around it at the moment? If it helps, I can provide some sample data to those who request it. Thanks in advance, Carson -- Carson J. Q. Farmer ISSP Doctoral Fellow National Centre for Geocomputation National University of Ireland, Maynooth, http://www.carsonfarmer.com/ _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo