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From   "Nevo, Dorit" <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Including a matrix in a monte carlo simulation
Date   Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:53:33 -0700

Thanks.

I'm not sure I'm going in the right direction so I'm pasting the full
program below. I am trying to calculate the mean and standard error of
sigma. I need quite a few calculations along the was so I tried to
generalize on the basic monte carlo example that I found in the reference
book and online.

By the time I create the matrix Fc should already be calculated. It works
fine without the matrix command so I'm not sure why the problem occurred.

Dorit


program define aes_monte
	version 7.0
	if "`1'" == "?" {
		global S_1" mean var"
		exit
	}
	drop _all
	set obs 3000
     	gen B0 = -.0353521 
	gen R =  .5022559 + .0403609*invnorm(uniform())  
     	gen Dc = -.3476753 + .0700479*invnorm(uniform())
     	gen Dk = .3394081 + .0281788*invnorm(uniform())
    	gen Bcc = -.0106232 + .0030351*invnorm(uniform())
     	gen Bkk = .0782757 +  .0023668*invnorm(uniform())
     	gen Bll = .0859557 + .0030879*invnorm(uniform()) 
     	gen Bck = .0217035 + .002353*invnorm(uniform()) 
     	gen Bcl = .0066442 +  .0040709*invnorm(uniform())
     	gen Bkl = -.1821175 + .0040324*invnorm(uniform())
	gen C = 14.86249
	gen lnC = 2.69884
	gen K = 576.6429
	gen lnK = 6.357223
	gen L = 486.6226
	gen lnL = 6.187489
	gen V =exp(B0 - (1/R)*ln(Dc*(C^(-R)) + Dk*(K^(-R)) +
(1-Dc-Dk)*(L^(-R))) + Bcc*(lnC^2) + Bkk*(lnK^2) + Bll*(lnL^2) + Bck*lnC*lnK
+ Bcl*lnC*lnL + Bkl*lnK*lnL)

	gen Z = Dc*C^(-R)+Dk*K^(-R)+(1-Dc-Dk)*L^(-R)
 	gen Fc = V*(Dc*C^(-R-1)/Z+Bck/C*lnK+Bcl/C*lnL+2*Bcc/C*lnC)
 	gen Fk = V*(Dk*K^(-R-1)/Z+Bck/K*lnC+Bkl/K*lnL+2*Bkk/K*lnK)
 	gen Fl = V*((1-Dc-Dk)*L^(-R-1)/Z+Bcl/L*lnC+Bkl/L*lnK+2*Bll/L*lnL)
 	gen Fcc = Fc^2/V - Fc/C +
V*((-R*Dc*C^(-R-2))/Z+(Dc^2*C^(-2*R-2)*R)/Z^2+2*Bcc/C^2)
	gen Fkk = Fk^2/V - Fk/K +
V*((-R*Dk*K^(-R-2))/Z+(Dk^2*K^(-2*R-2)*R)/Z^2+2*Bkk/K^2)
	gen Fll = Fl^2/V - Fl/L +
V*((-R*(1-Dc-Dk)*L^(-R-2))/Z+((1-Dc-Dk)^2*L^(-2*R-2)*R)/Z^2+2*Bll/L^2)
 	gen Fck = (Fc*Fk)/V + V*((R*Dc*Dk*C^(-R-1)*K^(-R-1)/Z^2)+Bck/(C*K))
	gen Fcl = (Fc*Fl)/V +
V*((R*Dc*(1-Dc-Dk)*C^(-R-1)*L^(-R-1)/Z^2)+Bcl/(C*L))
	gen Fkl = (Fk*Fl)/V +
V*((R*Dk*(1-Dc-Dk)*K^(-R-1)*L^(-R-1)/Z^2)+Bkl/(K*L))

	matrix H = (0,Fc,Fk, Fl\Fc, Fcc,
Fck,Fcl\Fk,Fck,Fkk,Fkl\Fl,Fcl,Fkl,Fll)
	gen detH = det(H)
	matrix Hck = (0,Fc,Fl\Fk,Fkc,Fkl\Fl,Flc,Fll)
	gen detHck = det(Hck)

	gen sigma_ck =  ((C*Fc+K*Fk+L*Fl)/(C*K))*(-detHck/detH)
	summarize sigma_ck
	post `1' (r(mean)) (r(Var))
end






-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Cox [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 12:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: RE: Including a matrix in a monte carlo simulation 


Nevo, Dorit
> 
> I'm trying to calculate the determinant of a matrix within 
> a Monte Carlo
> simulation program. The matrix takes variables that are 
> calculated in
> previous steps in the program.
> 
> The specific command I included is:
> 	matrix H = 
> (0,Fc,Fk,Fl\Fc,Fcc,Fck,Fcl\Fk,Fck,Fkk,Fkl\Fl,Fcl,Fkl,Fll)
> 	gen detH = det(H)
> 
> Fc, Fk, etc are calculated earlier in the program file.
> 
> However - I get an error message "Fc not found"


Stata won't allow you to insert a whole variable 
in this position, even if it only obtains one 
observation. The strange message is emitted because 
Stata is prepared to put named scalars in like 
this, but evidently you have no scalar named -Fc-.

You can specify Fc[1] or whatever to insert 
particular values for a variable. 

On the whole it seems likely that it would be much 
better style and more efficient for the upstream 
calculation to produce scalars, not variables, but 
in the absence of most of your code, that's 
a guess. 

But you _are_ putting a determinant -- one number -- 
in the new variable -detH-, and that is not 
necessary on the face of it. 

What might make sense to loop around roughly like 
this 

gen detH = . 

forval i = 1 / whatever { 

	do some stuff 
	
	form the matrix H  

	qui replace detH = det(H) in `i' 

} 

Nick 
[email protected] 
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