Re: st: Good spatial manual

[Natalie Trapp <natalie.trapp@zmaw.de>]

Dear Mr. Hughes,

I asked Mr. Drukker at the beginning of January when some of these 
commands will be available.
He said soon, but did not say an exact time. However, I don't know about 
all of them.

Regards,
Natalie

Am 26/01/2011 14:42, schrieb Gordon Hughes:
> The presentations listed in previous responses to this query are 
> useful but they are certainly not manuals and they are far from 
> comprehensive.
>
> You can find a list of SSC spatial routines and related material via 
> --net search spatial--.  In most cases the help files provide relevant 
> references, but I do not think that there is anything approaching a 
> manual or text on how carry out spatial analysis in Stata.  In part 
> this is because the area is still developing quite rapidly, while many 
> researchers have used other statistical environments for their work - 
> Matlab, Gauss and R are heavily favoured.  You could consider using 
> --spwmatrix-- and --splagvar-- followed by --ivreg2-- to estimate a 
> variety of spatial models via GMM/IV, but there are alternative 
> routines available - e.g. Maurizio Pisati's routines.
>
> Two additional remarks:
>
> 1.  In most cases the routines are unable to cope with missing data, 
> especially unbalanced panel data.  As this is a characteristic feature 
> of many spatial datasets, you need to think how to deal with it and 
> choose routines that are designed to cope with it.
>
> 2.  The number of spatial units (10s, 100s, 1000s, ...) is very 
> important for the route that you take.
>
> Finally, a general question for all readers.  The Drukker presentation 
> refer to forthcoming stata user modules --gs2sls-- --spreg-- and 
> --spivreg--.  Can anyone provide information on whether these are 
> actually available and, if so, how one can obtain them?  There is a 
> completely different routine (really in testing form) from William 
> MacMillan at the University of Michigan under the name --spreg-- .
>
> Gordon Hughes
>
>
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> Professor Gordon Hughes
> Department of Economics
> University of Edinburgh
>
> E-mail : G.A.Hughes@ed.ac.uk
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