Type Package Title Spatial areal unit modelling Version 2.0 Date 2013-12-03

Description This package implements Bayesian hierarchical spatial areal unit models. In such mod-els the spatial correlation is modelled by a set of random effects, which are assigned a condi-tional autoregressive (CAR) prior distribution. Examples of the models in-cluded are the BYM model as well as a recently developed localised spatial smooth-ing model.The creation of this package was supported by the Economic and Social Re-search Council (ESRC) grant RES-000-22-4256. License GPL (> = 2