I found this in my files. No help file
was written. It does the area bit.
Feed it the x and y coordinates of the
polygon vertices. The syntax is
polyarea xvar yvar [in]
*! NJC 1.0.0 15 August 2003
program polyarea, rclass
version 8
syntax varlist(min=2 max=2 numeric) [in]
tokenize `varlist'
args x y
marksample touse, novarlist
qui count if `touse' & (missing(`x') | missing(`y'))
if r(N) {
di as err "missing values in data"
exit 198
}
tempvar order area
gen long `order' = _n
su `order' if `touse', meanonly
qui gen `area' = `touse' * ///
(`x'[_n + 1] - `x') * (`y'[_n + 1] + `y') / 2
qui replace `area' = ///
(`x'[`r(min)'] - `x') * (`y'[`r(min)'] + `y') / 2 in `r(max)'
su `area', meanonly
di as res %9.0g abs(r(sum))
return scalar area = abs(r(sum))
end
Nick
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Dietrich Dr�ner
>
> how can I calculate the area and the center (of gravity) of
> a polygon
> (triangle, square, pentagon) in Stata?
>
> I have got data on the coordinates of the points forming
> the polygon. My
> goal is to calculate spatial models for my PhD in political science.
>
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