There is a user-written ado file available on the SSC site, sphdist, that
will compute the spherical distance between two points based on the
latitude and longitude of each. Otherwise, I am unaware of any GIS-type
routines within Stata. If anyone out there has written an ado file to list
the identities of observations within a specified distance of another
observation (eg. given a listing of hospitals and their latitude/longitude,
calculating which hospitals are within 5 miles of hospital A), I would be
interested in knowing about it.
Tim
At 09:10 AM 2/19/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Greetings,
Is Stata used for spatial statistics/GIS, including for teaching a basic
course on the topic? If so, what are its advantages or disadvantages
relative to other software? What's the best software for getting started
with spatial statistics?
Thanks,
Rick
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