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Hi. I have a question about sp.correlogram in SPDEP.

I created a weight matrix of 5 nearest neighbors. To play around with 
the sp.correlogram function, I specified an order of 10 (which is the 
max. lag order). The plot came out with spatial autocorrelation with 10 
lags.

How to understand the 10 spatial lags? I mean the weight matrix only has 
information of the nearest 5 neighbors (i.e. the matrix only provides 
information for the first 5 lags). How does the program know which are 
the 6th-10th lag?

Sorry for the odd question. Perhaps it's because I misunderstood the 
concept of lag in the program. Can someone clarify this for me?
Your k=5 k-nearest neighbours are first order neighbours. You asked for 10 
orders, so you "stepped out": the second order neighbours are the first 
order neighbours of your first order neighbours (omitting observations 
already included), and so on. Have a look (in practice) at what nblag() 
does if this is unclear, and note that for many lattices, there will be 
relatively few or no remaining neighbours at high lags.

Hope this helps,

Roger
Thanks!

K.

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