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15.3 Data Models for Discrete-Valued Spatio-Temporal Data
As previously alluded to, discrete-valued spatio-temporal data arise across a broad range
of subject-matter disciplines, with the specic distribution chosen to facilitate the anal-
ysis under consideration. Although, in principle, the framework presented here can
accommodate virtually any discrete-valued distribution, we briey describe a few of the
more popular distributions that arise in practice. The distributions displayed here are not
meant to constitute an exhaustive list of potential data model distributions that could be