Topics Covered
- The concept of a distance metric
- Construct distance band spatial weights
- Great circle distance
- The contents of a gwt weights file
- Assess the characteristics of distance-based weights
- Assess the effect of the max-min distance cut-off
- Identify isolates
- Construct k-nearest neighbor spatial weights
- Making a k-nearest neighbor weights matrix symmetric
- Construct contiguity weights for points and distance weights for polygons
- Block weights
- Space-time weights
- Create a general dissimilarity matrix based on multi-attribute distance
- Investigate commonalities among spatial weights (intersection and union)
GeoDa Functions
- Weight File Creation dialog
- distance-band weights
- k-nearest neighbor weights
- great circle distance option
- block weights option
- Weights Manager
- Connectivity Histogram, Map and Graph
- Intersection, Union
- Make symmetric
- Time Editor