Re: st: spatial weighting matrix

[Kyle Hood <kyle.hood@yale.edu>]

Max,

I'm not sure what "first-order queen contiguity" is, but you will 
probably have to geocode address data (geocode: address->lat/lon), and I 
don't think you can do this in Stata (that is, unless the breadth of 
Stata's capabilities is larger than I had realized, which is sometimes 
the case).  Try ArcGIS.  Once you have the geocoded data, you can 
probably compute the weight matrix in Stata, if you want.

Kyle

max r wrote:
> Dear all:
>
> I need to create a spatial weighting matrix (first-order queen
> contiguity) for a unbalanced panel dataset. The dataset has address
> information in it. Is there a way to do this in STATA? I am trying to
> test for neigborhood effects in behavior. Appreciate your thoughts.
>
> Max
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