Abstract

Many semiparametric spatial autoregressive (SSAR) models have been used to analyze spatial data in a variety of applications; however, it is a common phenomenon that heteroscedasticity often occurs in spatial data analysis. Therefore, when considering SSAR models in this paper, it is allowed that the variance parameters of the models can depend on the explanatory variable, and these are called heterogeneous semiparametric spatial autoregressive models. In order to estimate the model parameters, a Bayesian estimation method is proposed for heterogeneous SSAR models based on B-spline approximations of the nonparametric function. Then, we develop an efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling algorithm on the basis of the Gibbs sampler and Metropolis-Hastings algorithm that can be used to generate posterior samples from posterior distributions and perform posterior inference. Finally, some simulation studies and real data analysis of Boston housing data have demonstrated the excellent performance of the proposed Bayesian method.

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