capdist: Gleditsch and Ward Distance data
In Nicolas-Schmidt/BayesSPsurv: Bayesian Spatial Split Population Survival Model

Dyadic dataset extracted from Gleditsch and Ward (2001). The dataset contains information on the distace between capital cities among independent nation-states.

1	data(capdist)

A data frame with 41006 rows and 6 variables

numa: COW code – country A.
ida: Three letter ISO code – country A.
numb: COW code – country B.
idb: Three letter ISO code – country B.
kmdist: Distance between capital cities in the kilometers.
midist: Minimal distance between capital cities in the kilometers.

Gleditsch, Kristian S., and Michael D. Ward. (2001). "Measuring Space: A Minimum-Distance Database and Applications to International Studies." Journal of Conflict Resolution 38(6): 739-758.

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