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Imputation of missing spatial areal data

3 messages · Roger Bivand, Amitha Puranik

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Hello everyone,

I would like to know whether it is possible to use the spatial
autoregressive model to impute missing values in aggregate data? If the OLS
model is replaced with SAR model in regression imputation, would it lead to
better estimates for missing values in a spatial data?
Any opinion/ suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Amitha Puranik.
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Amitha Puranik wrote:

            
Please see the article referenced in the help page for 
spatialreg::predict.sarlm():

Michel Goulard, Thibault Laurent & Christine Thomas-Agnan, 2017 About 
predictions in spatial autoregressive models: optimal and almost optimal 
strategies, Spatial Economic Analysis Volume 12, Issue 2-3, 304-325

The differences in the spatial error model would be through any 
differences in covariate coefficient values, but if the differences are 
large, the Hausman test for misspecification would fail. Your post nudged 
me to raise an issue on spatialreg about SLX prediction, which very likely 
also makes sense, and to check predictions where Durbin=TRUE more 
generally.

Roger

  
    
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Dear Roger,

Thank you for the quick response. I shall refer the article that you
recommended.

Kind regards,
Amitha Puranik.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 3:39 PM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote: