[R-sig-Geo] inconsistent results from moran.test()

[Jay Wang]

It solved my problem. Thank you!

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand using nhh.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Jay Wang wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Having my own spatial weight matrix, I converted it to a listw format and
> > calculated the Moran index. The codes are listed below:
> >
> > Wod_lw<-mat2listw(Wod)
> > moran.test(mydata$Ties_processed,Wod_lw, randomisation=TRUE)
>
> Here, Wod_lw has an unknown style, "M" for matrix.
>
> >
> > However, after I generated a gal file, imported it, converted it back to
> a
> > listw file, and re-calculated the Moran index with the following codes,
> the
> > results became totally different (0.1624 vs. 0.1942):
> > write.nb.gal(Wod_lw$neighbours,"Wod.gal")
>
> This only writes the neighbours (read the help page), not the weights.
>
> > Wod.gal.nb <- read.gal(file="Wod.gal")
> > Wod_lw2<-nb2listw(Wod.gal.nb)
>
> The default style in nb2listw() is "W", row standardised.
>
> What does:
>
> all.equal(Wod_lw$weights, Wod_lw2$weights, check.attributes=FALSE)
>
> say? And:
>
> all.equal(Wod_lw$neighbours, Wod_lw2$neighbours, check.attributes=FALSE)
>
> > moran.test(mydata$Ties_processed,Wod_lw, randomisation=TRUE)
> > moran.test(mydata$Ties_processed,Wod_lw2, randomisation=TRUE)
> >
> > I don't know where the problem is. I would appreciate if anyone can help
> me
> > with this. Thank you
>
> Do read the help pages, you'll find they explain these things.
>
> Roger
>
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