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[Monica Palaseanu-Lovejoy]

Hi Coro,

The weights are already raw standardized. The word "threshold" is 
correct spelled, and you yourself answered the third question. How 
did you calculated the expected spatial lag for 50 km and 175 km 
to compare with what GeoDa does? if you use different thresholds 
you will certainly get different spatial lags.

I don't know about computing an inverse distance matrix in GeoDa 
but if you look into R - a free statistical software 
(http://cran.r-project.org/), there is a package called spdep which 
reads data from GeoDa like the weight matrix. 

Good luck,

Monica