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Station Exposure And Resulting Bias In Temperature Observations: A Comparison Of He Kentucky Mesonet And Asos Data, James Kyle Thompson Dec 2014

Station Exposure And Resulting Bias In Temperature Observations: A Comparison Of He Kentucky Mesonet And Asos Data, James Kyle Thompson

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Station siting, exposure, instrumentation, and time of observations influence longterm climatic records. This thesis compared and analyzed temperature data from four Kentucky Mesonet stations located in Fayette (LXGN), Franklin (LSML), Clark (WNCH), and Bullitt (CRMT) counties to two nearby Automated Surface Observation Systems (ASOS) stations in Kentucky. The ASOS stations are located at Louisville International Airport (Standiford Field - KSDF) and at Lexington Airport (Blue Grass Field - KLEX). The null hypothesis states that there is no significant difference in temperature measurements between the two types of stations. To quantify the differences in temperature measurements, geoprofiles and the following statistical …

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Tradition And Change: Two Buddhisms In The Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation, Jonathan Spence Dec 2014

Tradition And Change: Two Buddhisms In The Bible Belt Sharing Common Ground Through Adaptation, Jonathan Spence

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This thesis examines how some American and Burmese forms of Buddhism in the Bible Belt today share common ground through a process of adaptation. Exploring tradition and change, I reveal how change often requires adaptation. Utilizing ethnographic research conducted in south central Kentucky and middle Tennessee, I argue that some Burmese and American forms of Buddhism in the Bible Belt experience change through three aspects of adaptation. These consist of reduction, syncretism, and preservation. I explore these three aspects through interviews and observations of immigrant Burmese Buddhist monks and American Buddhist meditation leaders. In doing so, I also examine the …

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Geopolitics, Borders, And Federalism: Challenges For Post-War Iraq, Paul G. Lockhart Dec 2014

Geopolitics, Borders, And Federalism: Challenges For Post-War Iraq, Paul G. Lockhart

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I enabled the victorious Western powers to implement the Sykes-Picot Treaty and reshape the geopolitical structure of the Middle East. The imposition of arbitrary borders on the Middle East region, specifically the state of Iraq, would lead to significant conflicts over the course of the 20th century. In 2003, a US-led invasion would further compound the instability and sectarian conflict within Iraq by completely dismantling the state. In the years after the invasion, the United States has been directly involved unsuccessfully in trying to rebuild and stabilize the …

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Para Ver África: O Olhar Imperial E A Criação Do Espaço Social, Michael Southwell Dec 2014

Para Ver África: O Olhar Imperial E A Criação Do Espaço Social, Michael Southwell

The Kennesaw Tower Undergraduate Foreign Language Research Journal

In this essay, I explore the beginning and end of Portuguese colonialism in Africa to better understand imperial notions of space and place over a span of nearly five hundred years. Drawing from Os Lusíadas (1572) by Luís Vaz de Camões and A Costa dos Murmúrios (1988) by Lídia Jorge, I intend to present how cultural geography can be interpreted within the canon of Portuguese literature. How are culture and identity represented within the imperial space of Africa, and what do these social phenomena reveal about the physical space around people? By rooting these questions within the discipline of geography, …

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Two Essays On Governance At The National And Corporate Level, Laura Savory Miller Dec 2014

Two Essays On Governance At The National And Corporate Level, Laura Savory Miller

HCBE Theses and Dissertations

ESSAY 1
We examine the effect of governance environment on the composition of a country's external capital structure, specifically foreign equity investment. In addition to the absolute quality of the host country's governance environment, we consider the host country's governance quality relative to that of the source (investor) country. Unlike previous studies, which utilize country totals, we examine foreign investment positions between pairs of individual countries. Our sample includes 3,891 bilateral investment positions among 49 source countries and 69 host countries for years 2009 through 2011. We find that relative governance, rather than absolute governance, plays a role in foreign …

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Flow Dynamics Of Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, C. J. Van Der Veen, L. A. Stearns, Jesse Johnson, B. Csatho Dec 2014

Flow Dynamics Of Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, C. J. Van Der Veen, L. A. Stearns, Jesse Johnson, B. Csatho

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Force-balance calculations on Byrd Glacier, East Antarctica, reveal large spatial variations in the along-flow component of driving stress with corresponding sticky spots that are stationary over time. On the large scale, flow resistance is partitioned between basal (�80%) and lateral (�20%) drag. Ice flow is due mostly to basal sliding and concentrated vertical shear in the basal ice layers, indicating the bed is at or close to the pressure-melting temperature. There is a significant component of driving stress in the across-flow direction resulting in nonzero basal drag in that direction. This is an unrealistic result and we propose that there …

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Urban Seismology For Groundwater Characterization In A Developing Country: Challenges And Rewards, John H. Bradford, Kyle Lindsay, Steve Silliman, Nicaise Yalo, Moussa Boukari Dec 2014

Urban Seismology For Groundwater Characterization In A Developing Country: Challenges And Rewards, John H. Bradford, Kyle Lindsay, Steve Silliman, Nicaise Yalo, Moussa Boukari

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

The coastal city of Cotonou in the developing country of Bénin, West Africa, is a large population center that is facing a serious threat to the sustainability of its freshwater supply. The city relies on the Godomey aquifer for domestic water, but the aquifer is undergoing saltwater intrusion. This problem is likely to worsen without significant steps to improve management of the water supply. Aquifer continuity and saltwater flow paths are poorly understood, but that information is critical to ensure sustainable access to freshwater in this growing urban center. In January 2012, a two-year geophysical investigation was begun with the …

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Chilean Media And Public Opinion (1973-2013), Tara Schoenborn Dec 2014

Chilean Media And Public Opinion (1973-2013), Tara Schoenborn

Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All

In this thesis, I examine the extent to which the media censorship of the Pinochet dictatorship, which ended over 20 years ago, continues to influence Chilean public opinion and policy today. The dictatorship’s control, penetration and censorship of the press in the 1970s and 1980s appears to have created a lack of pluralism in the media that helped the dictatorship retain political power for 17 years. However, it seems that the dictatorship’s influence did not end with its reign and that this lack of media pluralism still exists today and could be correlated with a widespread conservatism in Chilean public …

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Hits And Runs: Determinants Of The Cross-Country Variation In The Severity Of Impact From The 2008-09 Financial Crisis, Shane Dwyer, Chih Ming Tan Dec 2014

Hits And Runs: Determinants Of The Cross-Country Variation In The Severity Of Impact From The 2008-09 Financial Crisis, Shane Dwyer, Chih Ming Tan

Economics & Finance Faculty Publications

Recent empirical work on the 2008-09 financial crisis has found mixed results on the usefulness of indicators to explain the cross-country variation in the incidence of the crisis in non-originating countries. While some authors have found success with various indicators, Rose and Spiegel (2009a,b) find that almost no indicators are robust. We employ Bayesian model averaging (BMA) to verify Rose-Spiegel’s conclusions under model uncertainty, confirming their findings. We then employ latent class models (LCM) to check the data for parameter heterogeneity. We find that there is substantial evidence of heterogeneity in the relationship between various indicators and crisis impact, both …

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Capital Punishment Reforms In Illinois: Comparing The Views Of Police, Prosecutors, And Public Defenders, Robert M. Lombardo, David Olson Dec 2014

Capital Punishment Reforms In Illinois: Comparing The Views Of Police, Prosecutors, And Public Defenders, Robert M. Lombardo, David Olson

Criminal Justice & Criminology: Faculty Publications & Other Works

On 9 March 2011, Governor Patrick Quinn abolished capital punishment in Illinois stating that the state’s system of imposing the death penalty was inherently flawed. Quinn’s announcement followed an eleven-year effort to end the death penalty that began with a 2000 moratorium on executions imposed by then Governor George Ryan. This moratorium was the direct result of the appellate reversal of a series of death-row convictions. Prompted by these reversals, Ryan also created the Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment to study the use of the death penalty in Illinois. As a result of this effort, comprehensive legislation was enacted to …

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Modeling Scenarios Of Sea-Level Rise And Human Migration: Rita Village, The Republic Of The Marshall Islands, Donna Davis Dec 2014

Modeling Scenarios Of Sea-Level Rise And Human Migration: Rita Village, The Republic Of The Marshall Islands, Donna Davis

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the relationship between sea-level rise and human migration from Rita Village in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). As one of only four low-lying atoll countries at the forefront of risks associated with climate change, examining the extent to which sea level will rise and displace residents in the Marshall Islands is of timely importance. The approach to this research is a scenario-based, case study and it examines loss of home, human displacement and subsequent migration in Rita Village as a result of varying levels of sea level rise. The scenario-based approach is based on the …

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Structure, Aboveground Biomass, And Soil Characterization Of Avicennia Marina In Eastern Mangrove Lagoon National Park, Abu Dhabi, Tareefa Alsumaiti Dec 2014

Structure, Aboveground Biomass, And Soil Characterization Of Avicennia Marina In Eastern Mangrove Lagoon National Park, Abu Dhabi, Tareefa Alsumaiti

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mangrove forests are national treasures of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other arid countries with limited forested areas. Mangroves form a crucial part of the coastal ecosystem and provide numerous benefits to society, economy, and especially the environment. Mangrove trees, specifically Avicennia marina, are studied in their native habitat in order to characterize their population structure, aboveground biomass, and soil properties. This study focused on Eastern Mangrove Lagoon National Park in Abu Dhabi, which was the first mangrove protected area to be designated in UAE. In situ measurements were collected to estimate Avicennia marina status, mortality rate (%), …

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Impact Of The 3-D Model Strategy On Science Learning Of The Solar System, Mohammed Alharbi Dec 2014

Impact Of The 3-D Model Strategy On Science Learning Of The Solar System, Mohammed Alharbi

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this mixed method study, quantitative and descriptive, was to determine whether the first-middle grade (seventh grade) students at Saudi schools are able to learn and use the Autodesk Maya software to interact and create their own 3-D models and animations and whether their use of the software influences their study habits and their understanding of the school subject matter. The study revealed that there is value to the science students regarding the use of 3-D software to create 3-D models to complete science assignments. Also, this study aimed to address the middle-school students’ ability to learn 3-D …

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Il Bel Paese As Seen From Malaysia: Language Learners’ Stereotypical Representations Of Italy, L. Nikitina, Z. Mohd Don, S.C. Loh Dec 2014

Il Bel Paese As Seen From Malaysia: Language Learners’ Stereotypical Representations Of Italy, L. Nikitina, Z. Mohd Don, S.C. Loh

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

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Adaptation Of Soil Judging To Northeast China, He Yun Dec 2014

Adaptation Of Soil Judging To Northeast China, He Yun

All Theses

Soil Judging teaches students important skills for field identification of soil types, properties, and interpretations for use. The adaptation of Soil Judging in Northeast China can be beneficial to students as well as government agencies and the private sector. The objective of this study was to adapt Soil Judging to the Northeast region of China by a graduate student from China, who was trained using an undergraduate course in Soil Judging and a regional Soil Judging competition. Unlike the U.S., China has 14 soil orders, with six soil orders somewhat similar to the ones found in the Southeast region of …

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Book Review - Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship And Mating Tell Us About Human Relationships, J. Matthew Hoch Dec 2014

Book Review - Wild Connection: What Animal Courtship And Mating Tell Us About Human Relationships, J. Matthew Hoch

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

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The Aascu Global Engagement Initiative: Educating Globally Competent Citizens, Dennis Falk, Jen Domagal-Goldman Dec 2014

The Aascu Global Engagement Initiative: Educating Globally Competent Citizens, Dennis Falk, Jen Domagal-Goldman

eJournal of Public Affairs

The Global Engagement Initiative (formerly Seven Revolutions Project), part of the American Democracy Project at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), focuses on educating globally competent citizens at colleges and universities. AASCU partnered originally with The New York Times Company, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and 10 AASCU member campuses to create a faculty toolkit, a national online blended-learning course, an eBook, faculty development workshops, and a student guide. All of these products focus on the promise and peril inherent in the global challenges of population, resources, technology, information, economies, conflict, and governance. The evolution …

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Voys Lessons: Whirling Words In Chaucer’S “House Of Rumour", Nicola Blake Dec 2014

Voys Lessons: Whirling Words In Chaucer’S “House Of Rumour", Nicola Blake

Publications and Research

“Voys Lessons: Whirling Words in Chaucer’s ‘House of Rumour’” examines the lability of sound and its use in the dissemination, transposition, and authorship of stories within The House of Fame, a text exemplifying the mobility and flexibility of misused or unhinged words, as expressed through sound as opposed to text. By engaging the use and interpretation of sound in contrast to words, this new reading concentrates on the idea of narrative as material artifact with limited stasis. Geffrey’s pseudo-authorship, through his voyeuristic stance, engages the textuality of sounds and shows the related subtlety, elasticity, and democratic sociohistorical aspect of …

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The Banner - V. 149, No. 12 - (December 2014), Christian Reformed Church In North America Dec 2014

The Banner - V. 149, No. 12 - (December 2014), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

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Pesquisas Em Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 7, No. 1/2, 2014, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo Dec 2014

Pesquisas Em Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 7, No. 1/2, 2014, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

KIP Articles

Contents: Geoturismo na APA Carste Lagoa Santa/MG: breve reflexão sobre a identidade do espaço -- Protocolo de avaliação e inventariação de lugares de interesse geológico e mineiro -- Avaliação multicritério da vulnerabilidade ambiental e natural na identificação de áreas prioritárias para conservação do patrimônio espeleológico -- Carste, história, geografia e cultura na Cracóvia: séculos de interação humana na paisagem polonesa -- Estudo microclimático do ambiente de cavernas, Parque Estadual Intervales, SP -- Parque Estadual do Ibitipoca/MG: potencial geoturístico e proposta de leitura do seu geopatrimônio por meio da interpretação ambiental

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The Conduit, Volume 14, No. 1&2, December 2014, Karst Waters Institute Dec 2014

The Conduit, Volume 14, No. 1&2, December 2014, Karst Waters Institute

The KWI Conduit

Contents: Welcome to The Conduit -- President's Corner -- KWI Happenings -- Upcoming 2015 Karst Award Banquet, March 14, 2015 -- KWI Sponsor for GSA Conference Sessions in 2014 -- 2014 Wilson Scholarship Recipient -- Final Report: "Hypogene Cave Morphologies" Conference -- Meet KWI's New Associates -- Retirement News: Dr. John Mylroie -- Announcement for Upcoming Conference 2016 -- Research Focus: Karst Investigations in Illinois -- Research Report: Storm Response Study, West Virginia -- KWI Members Visit Cuba: Cave Investigations in Cuba -- Update: New Karst Division, Geological Society of America

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Finding Place: The Art Of Wangechi Mutu, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons And Ingridmwangiroberthutter, Eva Susanne Hericks-Bares Dec 2014

Finding Place: The Art Of Wangechi Mutu, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons And Ingridmwangiroberthutter, Eva Susanne Hericks-Bares

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation examines the issue of " place" in the lives and works of three contemporary women artists of the African Diaspora: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, IngridMwangiRobertHutter, and Wangechi Mutu. Place as a location is a core challenge of globalism: though fundamental to our existence, it has ceased to be permanent or definite. However, place is more than location--it is cultural, gendered, historical, interactive, personal and social, among other things--and can only be fully understood in considering several of these different facets. Each of the artists in this dissertation has had to navigate through instances of bias (such as racism and …

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Violence Against Chicanas From 1950 To 2000, Tzu-Ling Yen Dec 2014

Violence Against Chicanas From 1950 To 2000, Tzu-Ling Yen

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

In the mid-twentieth to late-twentieth century, a number of Mexican laborers came to the United States to search for more working opportunities. After settling in the U.S. | they had to adjust to the harsh environment, poor working conditions, and multiple discrimination in Anglo-American society. Also, many Chicanas suffered from religious and patriarchal violence inside their community. This thesis examines different types of violence against Chicana/o migrants in the U.S. from 1950 to 2000, including economic violence, religious violence, racial discrimination, and sexual violence. In both Chicana/o community and white society, Chicanas/os have to deal with different kinds of violence …

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A Reconsideration Of Labor Supply Of Immigrants And Social Welfare Programs, Yi Zhang Dec 2014

A Reconsideration Of Labor Supply Of Immigrants And Social Welfare Programs, Yi Zhang

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation contributes to the discussion of the labor market performance of immigrants and their economic assimilation in terms of welfare program participation. The composition of immigrant labor force in U.S. has been fluctuating dramatically. In 1980, for example, the immigrant share of persons aged 50--74 was 8.9% but in 2000, more than 14.5% of this older population group were from foreign countries. Then in 2010, this proportion dropped to around 13.2%. Part of this variation is due to the aging of previous immigrants residing in U.S. but many recent inflows also include a surprisingly high proportion of people in …

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American Masculinity And Home In Antebellum Literature, Derek Scott Mcgrath Dec 2014

American Masculinity And Home In Antebellum Literature, Derek Scott Mcgrath

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The conventional argument in literary and gender studies of nineteenth-century United States culture has been that the home was women's claimed sphere of influence, whereas men were excluded from the home because of their economic, cultural, and societal commitments to the public sphere. Even as Catharine Beecher, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Josepha Hale, and other adherents to a conservative domestic ideology closely associated the private sphere with women, these same writers identified specific roles and spaces that they expected men to occupy in the home. Hardly only a woman's domain, the home was a powerful force in motivating constructions of …

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The Blues Continuum: New York Calls - Naples Responds, Alessandro Buffa Dec 2014

The Blues Continuum: New York Calls - Naples Responds, Alessandro Buffa

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

My dissertation traces a form of call and response between New York City and Naples in the 1970s and 1980s. It foregrounds the importance of the `blues' in the traffic of sound, images and oppositional ideas between these two cities located on the same geographical parallel. The blues here is understood as a musical style and feeling, as well as an affect of trauma, loss, memory and an intimate relationship that artists and activists established with their city spaces in the age of the so called " urban crisis." It proposes a " blutopia," based on utopian/dystopian tensions that promote …

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The Gendered City: The Politics Of Violence Against Women In Mexico City's Public Transportation System, Amy Dunckel Dec 2014

The Gendered City: The Politics Of Violence Against Women In Mexico City's Public Transportation System, Amy Dunckel

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

According to the World Health Organization as of 2010 more people live in cities than ever before. And yet, also according to them, women are one of the least likely groups to control the wealth and power that is produced in these metropolises. How are women excluded from equal right to the city? Why is gender inequality in cities so persistent and difficult for women to overcome? This research looks at the case of Mexico City -one of the largest cities in the world, hailed as an economic hub for Latin America- to answer these questions. In the last decade …

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Examining Teacher Leadership Development In A Government Secondary School In Koboko West-Nile Uganda, Wayi Dragamulai Dec 2014

Examining Teacher Leadership Development In A Government Secondary School In Koboko West-Nile Uganda, Wayi Dragamulai

Master of Education

The ultimate resource of any community is its people and so are the teachers who are a beacon of hope for the future of a school. A case study of examining teacher leadership development in a government secondary school in Koboko District, West Nile Uganda was carried out. This study aimed at determining teacher leadership development opportunities in the school, the factors that enhance and the factors that hamper teacher leadership development in the school. Data collection involved the use of both primary and secondary methods with instruments such as, semi structured interviews, focused group discussion, and document analyses were …

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A Magical Country : Stories From Appalachia., James Eric Leary 1977- Dec 2014

A Magical Country : Stories From Appalachia., James Eric Leary 1977-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Fairy tales and other forms of fantastic literature have fascinated children and adults for generations. The scholarship on these types of works indicate that many find their folkloric origins in oral storytelling, and those roots may be quite ancient. However, some of the earliest examples of recorded literature capture stories of magic and fantasy. The interplay between the oral and literary form remains a significant area of study and development for folk literature, and new artistic productions, termed variants in the scholarship, continue to appear frequently in contemporary American culture. The criticism and creative work presented here add to the …

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Ngspatial: A Package For Fitting The Centered Autologistic And Sparse Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models For Areal Data, John Hughes Dec 2014

Ngspatial: A Package For Fitting The Centered Autologistic And Sparse Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models For Areal Data, John Hughes

The R Journal

Two important recent advances in areal modeling are the centered autologistic model and the sparse spatial generalized linear mixed model (SGLMM), both of which are reparameterizations of traditional models. The reparameterizations improve regression inference by alleviating spatial confounding, and the sparse SGLMM also greatly speeds computing by reducing the dimension of the spatial random effects. Package ngspatial (’ng’ = non-Gaussian) provides routines for fitting these new models. The package supports composite likelihood and Bayesian inference for the centered autologistic model, and Bayesian inference for the sparse SGLMM.

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