libpysal.weights.block_weights

libpysal.weights.block_weights(regimes, ids=None, sparse=False, **kwargs)

Construct spatial weights for regime neighbors.

Block contiguity structures are relevant when defining neighbor relations based on membership in a regime. For example, all counties belonging to the same state could be defined as neighbors, in an analysis of all counties in the US.

Parameters:

regimeslist, array

ids of which regime an observation belongs to

idslist, array

Ordered sequence of IDs for the observations

sparsebool

If True return WSP instance If False return W instance

**kwargskeyword arguments

optional arguments for pysal.weights.W

Returns:

Wspatial weights instance

Examples

>>> from libpysal.weights import block_weights
>>> import numpy as np
>>> regimes = np.ones(25)
>>> regimes[range(10,20)] = 2
>>> regimes[range(21,25)] = 3
>>> regimes
array([1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 1., 2., 2., 2., 2., 2., 2., 2.,
       2., 2., 2., 1., 3., 3., 3., 3.])
>>> w = block_weights(regimes)
>>> w.weights[0]
[1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0]
>>> w.neighbors[0]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 20]
>>> regimes = ['n','n','s','s','e','e','w','w','e']
>>> n = len(regimes)
>>> w = block_weights(regimes)
>>> w.neighbors == {0: [1], 1: [0], 2: [3], 3: [2], 4: [5, 8], 5: [4, 8], 6: [7], 7: [6], 8: [4, 5]}
True