Rodrigues, Alexandre; Assunção, Renato - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 78 (2008) 15, pp. 2408-2411
In Bayesian spatially varying parameter models the covariates' coefficients in a regression model are allowed to change smoothly in space. A Markov random field is adopted as an improper prior distribution for the area-specific spatial effects. We demonstrate that the posterior distribution is a...