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From   "Katsuhide Isa" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: two questions about matrix operations
Date   Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:36:26 +0900

Dear Statalisters,

I have two questions about matrix operations in Stata.
Suppose there is a matrix form data set like below:

     A    B     C    D
A    0    0     0    1
B  0.3    0     0  0.7
C  0.2 0.15  0.65    0
D  0.3  0.4     0  0.3

Question 1.
To compute sum of numbers of zeros for this matrix, I wrote 
the following:

foreach var of varlist A-D{
	count if `var' == 0
}

The result is:

1
2
3
1

Namely, numbers of zeros for each variable are vertically 
shown.
One step further, I'd like to obtain total sum of numbers 
of zeros (1+2+3+1=7 in this case).
Is it possible to do so?


Question 2.
To compute sum of row variances, I wrote the following:

/* sum of row variances */
loc egen sd = rsd(A-D)
loc egen v = sd^2
loc egen sumv = sum(v)
di in gr "  sum of row variances" _col(38) ": " %5.3f in ye `sumv'

While no errors are shown, the result for `sumv' are not 
shown, either.
# Only the title "sum of row variances : " is shown.

I don't know why this happens, thoguh I may have made some 
elementary mistakes.
Is there any alternatives to compute? 

Any suggestions welcome.
Thanks in advance.

K.I.


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