oldcol {GeoXp}R Documentation

Columbus OH spatial analysis data set

Description

The columbus data frame has 49 observations and 22 columns. Unit of analysis: 49 neighbourhoods in Columbus, OH, 1980 data.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 49 observations on the following 21 variables.

PERIMETER
Computed by ArcView
COLUMBUS.
internal polygon ID
COLUMBUS.I
another internal polygon ID
POLYID
yet another internal polygon ID
NEIG
neighbourhood id value (1-49); conforms to id value used in Spatial Econometrics book
HOVAL
housing value (in 1,000 dollars)
INC
household income (in 1,000 dollars)
CRIME
residential burglaries and vehicle thefts per thousand households in the neighborhood
OPEN
open space in the neighborhood
PLUMB
percentage housing units without plumbing
DISCBD
distance to CBD
X
x coordinate
Y
y coordinate
AREA
neighborhood area
NSA
north south dummy (North=1)
NSB
north south dummy (North=1)
EW
east west dummy (East=1)
CP
core-periphery dummy (Core=1)
THOUS
constant=1,000
NEIGNO
Neig+1,000, alternative neighborhood id value
PERIM
polygon perimeter

Details

This data file prepared by Luc Anselin, Spatial Analysis Laboratory, Department of Agriculture and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Source

Anselin, Luc (1988). ``Spatial econometrics: methods and models''. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, Table 12.1 p 189.

Bivand R. (2008), `The spdep package', http://cran.r-project.org/doc/packages/spdep.pdf

Examples

data(oldcol)

[Package GeoXp version 1.2 Index]