B0880
Title: Clustering point patterns on linear networks
Authors: Ramses Mena - Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico (Mexico) [presenting]
Abstract: An unsupervised classification method for point events occurring on a network of lines is proposed. The idea relies on the distributional flexibility and practicality of Bayesian nonparametric mixture models to discover the clustering structure featuring observations from a particular phenomenon taking place on a given set of edges. By incorporating the spatial effect in the random partition distribution, induced by a Dirichlet process, one is able to control the distance between edges and events, thus leading to an appealing method to point clustering. A Gibbs sampler algorithm is proposed and evaluated with a sensitivity analysis. The proposal is motivated and illustrated by the analysis of crime and violence patterns in Mexico City.