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Hello community,
I'm running a spatial CAR model and wondered it was possible to change the prior term for the fixed effect from the default which is dflat to dnorm (0, 0.0001)? I know there is an option in the syntax to add informative priors, but in this case, I have 13 covariates including the ...

Hello Billy,

Thank you for the reply.
A follow-up question, so at best with the current program, we can specify random intercepts at levels 2 and 3.

Although it's not the same as what i was trying to accomplish with the model, would it be possible then to
treat "year" as a level, and poly ID ...

Dear runmlwin community,

I am trying to fit a spatiotemporal model using with the following code

runmlwin outcome cons year covariate1, ///
level3(POLY_ID: year cons, carids(mmid1-mmid10) carweights(carweight1-carweight10)) ///
level2(POLY_ID: cons) ///
level1(POLY_ID: ) ///
discrete(distribution ...

Dear Dr. Chartlon,

Thank you for helping troubleshoot. The model worked when I changed "zipcode" to POLY_ID, because that variable contained the identifiers for the mmids and carids. When I used geobougs to generate the spatial weights matrix, I used the POLY_ID that was within the shapefile. I can ...

Thank you for the clarification!
Yes, several mmids have zero and mmid10 starts with zero.
So when you say renumbering, you are suggesting change from 0 to something like 0.1? These IDs are based on an adjacency matrix from Geobugs, and an R-function you wrote previously to create the variables in ...

Hi Chris,
The ID is an integer and so does not start with zero.
Thanks for offering a suggestion!

Hi all, I am running the following code, which works fine until i enter the savewinbugs syntax.
Even when I pause the analysis and manually try to save the winbugs output, I get the same error:
MCMC Error 0243: The 1th neighbouring unit for area 1 is not a known area

runmlwin alcohol cons year ...

Has anyone estimated a spatio-temporal model using the runmlwin platform?
I have 6 years of data across areas, and i am wondering how/where to specify the space * time correlation? And how would one print/predict the relative risks for the areas over time to map?
If anyone has syntax and willing to ...

Dear Chris,

Thank you very much for your extended effort in providing the syntax and data. I will be sure to acknowledge your contribution in any resulting publication.

Warm regards,
Yusuf

Dear colleagues,

I have read examples of how to perform a spatial model In runmlwin and all examples have a data set with the weights already included.
For example in the Scottish Lip Cancer example, the required variables are ( neigh1-neigh11) (weights1-weights11) and (wcar1-war11).

##My question ...