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st: spmat distance cutoff


From   [email protected]
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: spmat distance cutoff
Date   Tue, 05 Apr 2011 11:22:17 -0500

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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