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From   "Jann Ben" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: [Mata] passing a function to mata
Date   Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:00:45 +0200

I wanted to write

 s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(*funct)(x)
                  ^^^

ben

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jann Ben
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 8:56 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: [Mata] passing a function to mata
> 
> 
> Antoine, to pass a function, you have to type "&" 
> followed by the function's name followed by "()". 
> First of all, in your program change
> 
>  s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)
> 
> to
> 
>  s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)(x)
> 
> then define
> 
>   function squareofx(x) return(x:^2)
> 
> and then type
> 
>  gaussher(12 , &squareofx())
> 
> See -help m2_ftof-. 
> 
> ben
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] 
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> > Antoine Terracol
> > Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:33 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: st: [Mata] passing a function to mata
> > 
> > 
> > Dear _all
> > 
> > I'm trying to write mata code to evaluate integrals 
> |f(x)g(x) (where 
> > g(x)is the standard normal pdf) by Gauss-Hermite quadrature 
> > (I know this 
> > has been done before in Stata, but I'm trying to learn mata, so I 
> > thought I might give it a try).
> > 
> > I was able to code for the nodes and weight vectors, but I 
> > can't figure 
> > out how to tell mata which fuction f(x) I wish to evaluate.
> > 
> > I want to be able to specify the f(x) function, say x^2, 
> when calling 
> > the mata program
> > 
> > Here is a sketch of the code :
> > 
> > 
> > ___________________________________________
> > void gaussher(scalar node,   funct){
> > 
> > [compute nodes (x) and weight (w) vectors]
> > 
> > x=x:*sqrt(2)
> > s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)
> > 
> > [return stuff]
> > }
> > end
> > ____________________________________________
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If I type -gaussher(12 , x:^2)-
> > 
> > mata complains that "x not found"
> > 
> > but if I type -gaussher(12 , "x:^2")-
> > 
> > mata complains that "nonnumeric found where numeric required"
> > 
> > 
> > Could anyone point me to the correct way of passing such 
> > arguments to a 
> > mata program ?
> > 
> > Best,
> > Antoine
> > 
> 
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