# libpysal.weights.w_clip¶

libpysal.weights.w_clip(w1, w2, outSP=True, **kwargs)[source]

Clip a continuous W object (w1) with a different W object (w2) so only cells where w2 has a non-zero value remain with non-zero values in w1.

Checks on w1 and w2 are performed to make sure they conform to the appropriate format and, if not, they are converted.

Parameters
w1W

W, scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix Potentially continuous weights matrix to be clipped. The clipped matrix wc will have at most the same elements as w1.

w2W

W, scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix Weights matrix to use as shell to clip w1. Automatically converted to binary format. Only non-zero elements in w2 will be kept non-zero in wc. NOTE: assumed to be of the same shape as w1

outSPbool

If True (default) return sparse version of the clipped W, if False, return W object of the clipped matrix

**kwargskeyword arguments

optional arguments for pysal.weights.W

Returns
wcW

W, scipy.sparse.csr.csr_matrix Clipped W object (sparse if outSP=Ture). It inherits id_order from w1.

Examples

>>> from libpysal.weights import lat2W


First create a W object from a lattice using queen contiguity and row-standardize it (note that these weights will stay when we clip the object, but they will not neccesarily represent a row-standardization anymore):

>>> w1 = lat2W(3, 2, rook=False)
>>> w1.transform = 'R'


We will clip that geography assuming observations 0, 2, 3 and 4 belong to one group and 1, 5 belong to another group and we don’t want both groups to interact with each other in our weights (i.e. w_ij = 0 if i and j in different groups). For that, we use the following method:

>>> import libpysal
>>> w2 = libpysal.weights.block_weights(['r1', 'r2', 'r1', 'r1', 'r1', 'r2'])


To illustrate that w2 will only be considered as binary even when the object passed is not, we can row-standardize it

>>> w2.transform = 'R'


The clipped object wc will contain only the spatial queen relationships that occur within one group (‘r1’ or ‘r2’) but will have gotten rid of those that happen across groups

>>> wcs = libpysal.weights.w_clip(w1, w2, outSP=True)


This will create a sparse object (recommended when n is large).

>>> wcs.sparse.toarray()
array([[0.        , 0.        , 0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.2       , 0.        , 0.        , 0.2       , 0.2       ,
0.        ],
[0.2       , 0.        , 0.2       , 0.        , 0.2       ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        ,
0.        ]])


If we wanted an original W object, we can control that with the argument outSP:

>>> wc = libpysal.weights.w_clip(w1, w2, outSP=False)
>>> wc.full()[0]
array([[0.        , 0.        , 0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.2       , 0.        , 0.        , 0.2       , 0.2       ,
0.        ],
[0.2       , 0.        , 0.2       , 0.        , 0.2       ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.33333333, 0.33333333, 0.        ,
0.        ],
[0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        , 0.        ,
0.        ]])


You can check they are actually the same:

>>> wcs.sparse.toarray() == wc.full()[0]
array([[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True],
[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True],
[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True],
[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True],
[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True],
[ True,  True,  True,  True,  True,  True]])