Latent models referred in this chapter

BYM = Besag-York-Mollié (BYM) model = the sum of:

  • spatial random effect ui modelled with CAR (conditional autoregressive model; Besag model)

ui|uiN(¯uδi,σ2unδi)

  • iid (unstructured) random effects viN(0,σ2v)