[R-sig-Geo] What is the unit of fixed bandwidth calculated from gwr.sel?

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Debarchana Ghosh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OS: Windows with 4 GB Ram. R-2.70
>
> I calculated bandwidth using the gwr.sel function from the spgwr package
>
> dat.bw.cv<-gwr.sel(yimp00~ english + slope30 + mac95d + mdinc_t + musa00 +
> popden_t + dissewer + dismcd
>                    + diswater + ag04 + c1dishwy + c1dipark + tccost1 +
> soil1 + soil2, data=dat,
>                    coords = cbind(dat$longx, dat$laty), longlat=TRUE,
> verbose = FALSE)
>
> My x,y matrix is in latlong coordinates and hence the option is longlat =
> TRUE.  As per the manual, if longlat is TRUE, the distances are used on an
> ellipse with WGS84 parameters. The output is:
> dat.bw.cv
> 69.79589
>
> My question is what is the unit of the fixed bandwidth here?

Kilometers - see ?spDistsN1.

>
> Thanks,
> Debs.
>

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