Book chapter

Spatial Simultaneous Autoregressive Models for Compositional Data: Application to Land Use

Christine Thomas-Agnan, Thibault Laurent, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Thi-Huong-An Nguyen, Raja Chakir, and Anna Lungarska

Abstract

Econometric land use models study determinants of land use shares of different classes: “agriculture”, “forest”, “urban” and “other” for example. Land use shares have a compositional nature as well as an important spatial dimension. We compare two compositional regression models with a spatial autoregressive nature in the framework of land use. We study the impact of the choice of coordinate space and prove that a choice of coordinate representation does not have any impact on the parameters in the simplex as long as we do not impose further restrictions. We discuss parameters interpretation taking into account the non-linear structure as well as the spatial dimension. In order to assess the explanatory variables impact, we compute and interpret the semi-elasticities of the shares with respect to the explanatory variables and the spatial impact summary measures.

Replaces

Christine Thomas-Agnan, Thibault Laurent, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, T.H.A Nguyen, Raja Chakir, and Anna Lungarska, Spatial simultaneous autoregressive models for compositional data: Application to land use, TSE Working Paper, n. 20-1098, May 2020, revised June 2021.

Reference

Christine Thomas-Agnan, Thibault Laurent, Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Thi-Huong-An Nguyen, Raja Chakir, and Anna Lungarska, Spatial Simultaneous Autoregressive Models for Compositional Data: Application to Land Use, in Advances in Compositional Data Analysis, Peter Filzmoser, Karel Hron, Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández, and Javier Palarea-Albaladejo (eds.), 2021.

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Advances in Compositional Data Analysis, Peter Filzmoser, Karel Hron, Josep Antoni Martín-Fernández, and Javier Palarea-Albaladejo (eds.), 2021