Regarding country correlation matrix in R-Yourcast - Yourcast

29 Oct 2013

I've been reading through the R code to better understand some challenges I've
had working with YourCast.

...
 From documentation in the code, I see that the country
correlations (alternately referred to inside yourcast by "adjacency" or
"proximity") must take the values 0,1,2. 
Does anyone have more knowledge about what these values mean? It seems that 0 represents
no correlation. So, is "2" a higher degree of correlation than "1"?

Thanks for any insights.

Regards,
Ethan

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Ethan Sharygin
University of Washington
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation