Creating and managing spatial-weighting matrices with the spmat command

David Drukker, Hua Peng (), Ingmar Prucha and Rafal Raciborski ()
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Stata Journal, 2013, vol. 13, issue 2, 242-286

Abstract: We present the spmat command for creating, managing, and storing spatial-weighting matrices, which are used to model interactions between spatial or more generally cross-sectional units. spmat can store spatial-weighting matrices in a general and banded form. We illustrate the use of the spmat command and discuss some of the underlying issues by using United States county and postalcode- level data. Copyright 2013 by StataCorp LP.

Keywords: spmat; spatial-autoregressive models; Cliff–Ord models; spatial lag; spatial-weighting matrix; spatial econometrics; spatial statistics; cross-sectional interaction models; social-interaction models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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