W_votes {BANAM}

Weight matrix for counties in Alabama, US

Description

This dataset specifies the four nearest neighboring counties of 67 counties in Alabama, US. All counties that satisfy this criteria were assigned a weight of 0.25.

Usage

data(W_votes)

Format

A matrix with 67 rows and 67 columns

References

Pace, R. K. and R. Barry. 1997. Quick Computation of Spatial Autoregressive Estimators. Geographical Analysis, 29, 232-47. Data can be downloaded from http://www.spatial-econometrics.com/html/jplv7.zip