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mbg is an R package for model-based geostatistics.

The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.

Overview of the MBG workflow\n

The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.

Using the package

You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:

install.packages("mbg")

Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.

After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).

Package workflow

A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:

  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty

For more details, see the introductory vignette.

Acknowledgments

Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:

  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program

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mbg is an R package for model-based geostatistics.
The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program
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The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
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The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
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The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program
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The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program
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Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program
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mbg is an R package for model-based geostatistics.
The mbg package provides a simple interface to run spatial machine learning models and geostatistical models that estimate a continuous (raster) surface from point-referenced observations and, optionally, a set of raster covariates. The package also includes functions to summarize raster estimates by (polygon) region while preserving uncertainty.
Overview of the MBG workflow\n
The mbg package combines features from the sf, terra, and data.table packages for spatial data processing; caret for spatial ML models; and R-INLA for geostatistical models.
Using the package
You can install the latest stable version of the mbg package from CRAN:
install.packages("mbg")
Some core package functions rely on R-INLA, which is not available on CRAN. If you do not already have the INLA package installed, you can download it following these instructions.
After installing and package and loading it using library(mbg), you can access the package vignette by running help(mbg), or get documentation for a specific function by running e.g. help(MbgModelRunner).
Package workflow
A typical MBG workflow includes the following steps:
  1. Load point data on outcomes, raster covariate surfaces, and a raster population surface
  2. (Optional): Run machine learning models relating the input covariate surfaces to the outcome, producing predictive raster surfaces from a variety of methods
  3. Prepare inputs for the geostatistical model. This includes the outcomes point data, model specifications, a spatial 2-D mesh, and either the input covariate surfaces or the ML predictive surfaces
  4. Run the geostatistical model. This model predicts the outcome as a linear combination of the raster surfaces and a SPDE approximation to a Gaussian process over space.
  5. Using the model fit, generate gridded predictions of the outcome across the entire study area. Uncertainty is captured by generating 250 posterior predictive draws at each pixel location.
  6. Summarize predictive draws as raster surfaces by taking the mean, median, and 95% uncertainty interval bounds of draws at each pixel location
  7. (Optional):Aggregate from pixels to administrative boundaries, preserving uncertainty
For more details, see the introductory vignette.
Acknowledgments
Many thanks to the following groups of people for their contributions to the package:
  • IHME's Local Burden of Disease core code team, for their development of geostatistical software tools that helped inspire this package. Special thanks to Aaron Osgood-Zimmerman, Ian Davis, John VanderHeide, Jon Mosser, Katie Wilson, Lauren Woyczynski, Michael Collison, Michael Cork, Mike Richards, Nafis Sadat, Neal Marquez, and Roy Burstein.
  • The Geospatial Analysis team at the Demographic and Health Surveys Program
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