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From   "Glenn Goldsmith" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Matrix transformation
Date   Sat, 4 Apr 2009 00:08:03 +0100

Hi Susan,

As far as I'm aware Stata/Mata don't really do sparse matrix storage, but
you can otherwise replicate the behavior of sparse() with the following mata
function:

********* Begin code ************** 
mata:
real matrix sparse(real matrix x) 
{
  real matrix y
  real scalar k

  y = J(colmax(x[,1]),colmax(x[,2]),0)
  for (k=1; k<=rows(x); k++) {
    y[x[k,1],x[k,2]] = y[x[k,1],x[k,2]] + x[k,3] 
  }

  return(y)
}
end
********* End code ****************

You can then call this either from within mata:

  y = sparse(x)

or within stata:

  mata : st_matrix("y",sparse(st_matrix("x")))

(in both cases assuming that your input matrix is called x, and output
matrix is called y).

HTH,

Glenn


"Susan Olivia" <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear all,

I would like to transform a say 4272 x 3 matrix (this matrix
basically tells us the distance between each pairs of
observation) onto 1068 x 1068. 

In MATLAB, this can be transformed using the following
command: 

load GIS_4NN.txt;
W4NN = sparse(GIS_4NN(:,1), GIS_4NN(:,2), GIS_4NN(:,3));

Is there any equivalent command like the above in STATA?

Any tips on this much appreciated. 

Thanks,

Susan

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