Bugs Group,
I am interested in using the car.normal function in WinBUGS for
mapping an emerging infectious disease in a deer population. I have
successfully used this function to implement the Besag, York et al.
model of spatial correlation across adjacent locations. However, I
have several years of data and am interested in modeling the dynamics
across years as well as spatial locations. I would like to be able to
implement both space and time correlations where the random-effect for
any area is correlated to its adjoining spatial neighbors and to its
temporal neighbors (including itself) both one time step before and
after. Is it possible to use car.normal in WinBUGS to do this? I
have looked at many examples but have only found examples for temporal
or spatial correlation but not simultaneous space and time
correlations. If this is not possible in WinBUGS, can someone please
point me to a resource where this could be modeled using MCMC.
Thanks,
Erik
Erik Osnas
Assistant Scientist
Department of Wildlife Ecology
University of Wisconsin
218 Russell Labs
1630 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-1984
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