Creating and Managing Spatial-Weighting Matrices with the Spmat Command. (July 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Drukker, David M.; Peng, Hua; Prucha, Ingmar R.; Raciborski, Rafal
• Is Part Of: Stata journal. Volume 13:Number 2(2013)
• Page Start: 242
• Page End: 286
• Publication Date: 2013-07
• Subjects: st0292 -- spmat -- spatial-autoregressive models -- Cliff–Ord models -- spatial lag -- spatial-weighting matrix -- spatial econometrics -- spatial statistics -- cross-sectional interaction models -- social-interaction models; Statistics -- Periodicals; Statistics -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 001.422
• DOI: 10.1177/1536867X1301300202
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-867X

Abstract

We present thespmat 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 thespmat command and discuss some of the underlying issues by using United States county and postal-code-level data.