stopp: An R Package for Spatio-Temporal Point Pattern Analysis

Abstract

The stopp R package deals with spatio-temporal point processes which might have occurred on the Euclidean space or on some specific linear networks such as roads of a city. The package contains functions to summarize, plot, and perform different kinds of analyses on point processes, mainly following the methods proposed in some recent papers in the stream of scientific literature. The main topics of such works, and of the package in turn, include modeling, statistical inference, and simulation issues on spatio-temporal point processes on Euclidean space and linear networks, with a focus on their local characteristics. We contribute to the existing literature by collecting many of the most widespread methods for the analysis of spatio-temporal point processes into a unique package, which is intended to welcome many further proposals and extensions