10.1 Topics Covered
- Understand the concept of spatial weight
- Construct rook and queen contiguity-based spatial weights
- Compute higher order contiguity weights
- Create space-time weights
- Store the weights information in a Project File
- Assess the characteristics of spatial weights
- Visualize the graph structure of spatial weights
- Identify the neighbors of selected observations
- Weights Manager (Tools > Weights Manager)
- weights file creation interface
- ID variable
- rook and queen contiguity
- precision threshold option
- spatial weights file name
- weights properties in the weights manager
- loading weights from a file
- Time Editor > Save Space-Time Table/Weights
- Structure of a GAL file
- Connectivity histogram
- Connectivity map
- Connectivity graph
- Select neighbors of selected
- Map > Connectivity
- Table > Add Neighbors To Selection
Figure 10.1: Weights Manager