The spatPomp package provides facilities for inference on panel data using spatiotemporal partially-observed Markov process (SpatPOMP) models. To do so, it relies on and extends a number of facilities that the pomp package provides for inference on time series data using partially-observed Markov process (POMP) models.

The spatPomp package concerns models consisting of a collection of interacting units. The methods in spatPomp may be applicable whether or not these units correspond to spatial locations.

To install the package from this GitHub source, type the following command into your console (assumes you have the devtools package installed): devtools::install_github('spatPomp-org/spatPomp'). The CRAN version of spatPomp can be installed by install.packages("spatPomp").

An overview of the package and its motivation can be found in [Asfaw et al. (2024, Journal of Open Source Software)[https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07008]. A longer tutorial is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.01157. For further information, including a bibliography, see the spatPomp website.