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Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) Models for Spatial Data

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Description

Notebook proposal

Title: Conditional Autoregressive (CAR) Models for Spatial Data

Why should this notebook be added to pymc-examples?

The CAR distribution is within the multivariate distributions that PyMC supports, but there are no notebooks that offer an example.

Suggested categories:

  • Level: beginner
  • Diataxis type: tutorial

Related notebooks

Junpeng wrote this great notebook on CAR priors, but this was pre the CAR distribution being a part of PyMC and for version 3.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the related pre-PyMC-v4 CAR-prior notebook linked in the issue and compare it with the current CAR distribution. Create a beginner-level tutorial notebook for CAR models on spatial data, using the existing notebook as a reference. Done means the example demonstrates the current distribution and is suitable for the suggested tutorial category.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter-notebook, python
Domain
data, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
45/100

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