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Re: st: spmat distance cutoff
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Ashley Arnio <[email protected]>
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Re: st: spmat distance cutoff
Date
Tue, 5 Apr 2011 09:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
Thank you.
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From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tue, April 5, 2011 12:22:17 PM
Subject: st: spmat distance cutoff
Ashley Arnio <[email protected]> has a question about using a distance cutoff
when creating an inverse-distance spatial-weighting matrix:
> Is there a way to use a "distance cutoff" of 100 miles, for example, in the
> inverse distance matrix with an alpha of 2 using the spmat command?
-spmat idistance- provides the -vtruncate()- option that works as a distance
cutoff. I will illustrate with the ancillary pollute.dta dataset that comes
with the sppack suite.
. use pollute, clear
. spmat idistance dobj longitude latitude, id(id) ///
dfunction(dhaversine, miles) vtruncate(1/100)
Since the distances are on an inverse scale, I specified 1/100 rather than 100
to be the cutoff value. -vtruncate(1/100)- caused -spmat idistance- to set the
weights of neighbors of each spatial unit to zero if they lie 100 or more
miles from a given unit. I also specified -miles- in -dfunction()- as the
default is to calculate distances in kilometers.
The truncation options are described in section 3.2 and illustrated in
section 3.6 of the working paper 'Creating and managing spatial-weighting
matrices using the spmat command', available at
http://econweb.umd.edu/~prucha/Papers/WP_spmat_2011.pdf.
--Rafal
[email protected]
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