Question about function COORDINATES in SP PACKAGE

Hello Roger,

Yes, I'm using spdep package to construct the matrices.

Do not use matrices, use neighbour or weights objects. Dense matrices with 
mostly zero values are a waste of space.

I used the knearneigh function (in which I entered the coordinates), as 
well as the poly2nb function.

Yes, however, you change the support of the aggregated data units by doing 
this, so knn is less well supported than contiguity in general.

I think that I only have one of these rings but the size of the polygons 
is relatively large (they are political divisions) of a country. In that 
case, can I keep extracting coordinates by the coordinates function?

The centroids are more dependent (and so the distances between point 
representations) on the boundary geometries than are simple contiguities. 
Change of support is always something of a problem. Practically, yes, you 
can do it, but whether it makes sense or not in terms of the data is a 
different question.

I didn't understand why you suggested avoiding GWR. Are you commenting 
on the methodology itself?

Yes, it may be used for exploring to detect possible omitted covariates 
but should not be used for modelling unless that is definitely the data 
generating process. Random data generates patterned (insignificant) 
coefficient maps.

Roger

Pietro Andre Telatin Paschoalino
Doutorando em Ci?ncias Econ?micas da Universidade Estadual de Maring? - PCE.

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