Creating a Region-Level Weights Matrix–updated!
Update! At the recent ERSA Congress here in Vienna, I connected with Roger Bivand, the lead developer of the spdep package for R. He had a look at the solution I wrote up here and spotted an issue with it. There is an updated version of spdep, currently available for…
ERSA 2016 Pre-conference Workshop on Spatial Econometrics
Tuesday morning’s workshop was a whole semester’s worth of material and ideas stuffed into just 3 hours. But James LeSage and Roger Bivand shared their presentation materials, teaching datasets and code files, so I consider it all my homework for the coming weeks to work through. Good timing, really for…
‘Broad Brushes and Useful Approximations’
Next month, I’ll be presenting this paper at the ERSA Congress here in Vienna. Abstract Scholars use a variety of methods to measure the size, shape, configuration, and characteristics of cities in analyzing the causes and consequences of urban form. The diversity of measurement approaches is a reflection of the…