Beyond the Border

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btb (“Beyond the Border - Kernel Density Estimation for Urban Geography”) is an R package which provides functions dedicated to urban analysis and density estimation using the KDE (kernel density estimator) method.

A partial transposition of the package in Python is also available: btbpy.

Description

The btb_smooth() function allows you to square and smooth geolocated data. It calculates a classical kernel smoothing (conservative) or a geographically weighted median. There are four major call modes of the function.

Installation

btb is available on CRAN and can therefore be readily installed

install.packages("btb")

To get a bug fix or to use a feature from the development version, you can install the development version of from GitHub :

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("InseeFr/btb")

Usage

Details on how to use the package can be found in its documentation. Some applications for spatial smoothing are presented in chapter 8 of the Handbook of Spatial Analysis published by Insee. You advise you to start by consulting the vignette of the package

Contributions

Maintainer: Kim Antunez antuki.kim+cran@gmail.com

Creators, authors and contributors:

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