ssd_paper_code

This is the code that can reproduce the results in the paper: "Spatially Selected and Dependent Random Effects for Small Area Estimation with Application to Rent Burden".

Main Manuscript

Code:

• paper_material.Rmd all code used to create the plots, table, and results referenced in the paper
• download_data.R use this file to download the data used for the paper. it will be stored in data/
• nc_simulation.R run this with n.sims=300 simulations to reproduce the empirical simulation study with 300 simulations
• fitting_chains.Rmd run this to fit the various models for the data analysis and verify the computation times

Folders:

• samplers/ include the MCMC samplers for all models used
• data/ includes all data used.
• sim_analysis_functions/ functions used to download data, set up & run simulations, and process results are included here
• sim_results_NC/ stores results for the North Carolina simulation study. NOTE: only partial results (4 simulations) are stored due to file size.
• data_analysis/ stores MCMC chains for the data analysis
• figs/ png copies of the figures in the paper

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Supplementary Materials

• suppl_report.Rmd a notebook to recreate the Supplemental Report
• preamble.tex used for the supplemental report
• sa_simulation.R can be used to run a simulation study with the South Atlantic Census Division. This will be time & memory intensive
• sim_results_SA/ stores results for the S.Atlantic Simulation study. NOTE: only partial results (1 simulation) are stored due to file size.