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Spatially Varying Autoregressive ProcessesAline Araújo Nobre ∗PROCC/FIOCRUZBruno SansóUniversity of California at Santa CruzAlexandra M. SchmidtDME/<strong>UFRJ</strong>We develop a class of models for processes indexed in time and space that are based on autoregressive(AR) processes at each location. We use a Bayesian hierarchical structure to impose spatial coherencefor the coefficients of the AR processes. The priors on such coefficients consists of spatial processes thatguarantee time stationarity at each point in the spatial domain. The AR structures are coupled with adynamic model for the mean of the process, which is expressed as a linear combination of time-varyingparameters. We use satellite data on sea surface temperature for the North Pacific to illustrate how themodel can be used to separate trends, cycles and short term variability for high frequency environmentaldata.∗ Apresentador/Speaker34

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