GEODIST: Stata module to compute geographical distances

Robert Picard

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: geodist calculates geographical distances by measuring the length of the shortest path between two points along the surface of a mathematical model of the earth. By default, geodist implements Vincenty's (1975) formula to calculate distances on a reference ellipsoid. geodist can also calculate great-circle distances using the haversine formula.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 9.2
Keywords: geodetic; geodesic; Vincenty; great-circle; ellipsoid; distance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04-25, Revised 2019-06-24
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install geodist". The module is made available under terms of the GPL v3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt). Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.
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