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Volume 13 Number 2: pp. 242-286

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Creating and managing spatial-weighting matrices with the spmat command

David M. Drukker
StataCorp
College Station, TX
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 Hua Peng
StataCorp
College Station, TX
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Ingmar R. Prucha
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
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 Rafal Raciborski
StataCorp
College Station, TX
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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 postal-code-level data.
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