CInstallation of DISMAP

1. Create a new directory for example C:\dismap

2. Copy the files from the floppy  into this directory

Your flopy contains some boundary files, with self explaining names.

Boundary files have the suffix *.bnd

Corresponding adjaceny matrices have the suffix *.adj

For demonstration purposes there some data files included:

1. ICD160.dat: Lung cancer mortality in Berlin 1989

2. KInd.DAT: Infant mortality in Berlin 1991 

3. Suicide.dat: Suicides in Berlin 1990

3. Hodgkin.dat: Hodgkin lymphoma in Germany 1980-84 

4. Berlin.dbf: Several data from Berlin. Dbase file!

5. Brd.dbf: Several data from the former federal republic of germany 

5. SIDS.DBF: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in North Carolina 1974-1978

A worked example is given as winword document worked.doc and as postscript file worked.doc!

Boundary files have the suffix *.bnd. 

In order to compute test statistics like Morans I an
adjacency matrix is required. Thes files have the suffix *.adj.
Two example files are germany.adj and berlin.adj.

The program conv.exe computes the adjacency matrix for a boundary file
readable by DISMAP. Two regions are adjacent, if they have one vertice in
common. (Queens case). It might be possible to check this adjacency matrix,
since the program does not take islands into account!


New: Dismap now reads DBase files! See for example Berlin.dbf!