spdep (version 0.4-9)

NY_data: New York leukemia data

Description

New York leukemia data taken from the data sets supporting Waller and Gotway 2004 (the data should be loaded by running example(NY_data) to demonstrate spatial data import techniques).

Usage

data(NY_data)

source

http://www.sph.emory.edu/~lwaller/ch9index.htm

Details

The examples section shows how the DBF files from the book website for Chapter 9 were converted into the nydata data frame and the listw_NY spatial weights list.

References

Waller, L. and C. Gotway (2004) Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

Examples

## NY leukemia
nydata <- read.dbf(system.file("etc/misc/nydata.dbf", package="spdep")[1])
coordinates(nydata) <- c("X", "Y")
nyadjmat <- as.matrix(read.dbf(system.file("etc/misc/nyadjwts.dbf",
 package="spdep")[1])[-1])
ID <- as.character(names(read.dbf(system.file("etc/misc/nyadjwts.dbf",
 package="spdep")[1]))[-1])
identical(substring(ID, 2, 10), substring(as.character(nydata$AREAKEY), 2, 10))
nyadjlw <- mat2listw(nyadjmat, as.character(nydata$AREAKEY))
listw_NY <- nb2listw(nyadjlw$neighbours, style="B")