1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

This paper develops two new models and evaluates the impact of using different weight matrices on parameter estimates and inference in three distinct spatial specifications for discrete response. These specifications rely on a conventional, sparse, inverse-distance weight matrix for a spatial auto-regressive probit (SARP), a spatial autoregressive approach where the weight matrix

1 This work is supported by the National Science Foundation through ITR program grant No CCR 0296082, and by NASA through a grant from the NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance (OSMA) Software Assurance Research Program (SARP) managed through the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Facility, Fairmont, West Virginia. 2 Correspondence author. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract

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