Title
Spatial regression models for bounded response variables with evaluation of the degree of dependence
Date Issued
01 January 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Flores S.E.
Prates M.O.
Bolfarine H.B.
Universidade de Säo Paulo
Publisher(s)
Homology, Homotopy and Applications
Abstract
Bounded response variables such as percentages, proportions, or rates are common in applications involving social and educational datasets, including rates of poverty or rates of achievement by municipalities, counties or provinces. New regression models have been proposed in recent years by considering distributions such as the Beta, Simplex and Ku-maraswamy models for this type of data. However, to this type of dataset, it is common to observe the spatial dependence of units. For instance, municipalities or counties are organized into states. For this case, the supposition of independence among observations in the same state removes relevant relations between neighboring provinces. In this paper, we present a model of spatially bounded distribution regression with a Bayesian estimation approach where spatial relations are modeled by a spatial random variable with a particular dependence structure, such as the intrinsic conditional autoregressive model or the Leroux definition. Additionally, the Bayesian inferential method and model comparison criteria are discussed. Simulation studies and an application in reading comprehension spatial data are used to illustrate the performance of the proposed model and the estimation method adopted.
Start page
95
End page
107
Volume
14
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Econometría Estadísticas, Probabilidad
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85099131994
Source
Statistics and its Interface
ISSN of the container
19387989
Sponsor(s)
This study was financed in part by the ?Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - Brasil? (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. The second author acknowledges financial support from CNPq grants 436948/2018-4 and 307547/2018-4 and FAPEMIG grant PPM-00532-16. The third author was partially supported by FAPESP-Brazil 2017/15452-5
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