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st: Matrix question


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Matrix question
Date   Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:01:56 +0000

I have a large mata matrix that I want to reduce: I want to replace each
block of five rows with a single row containing their mean.

My brute force approach goes as follows

| mata:
| t = mean(s[1..5 , ])
| for (i=2; i<=rows(s)/5; i++) {
|   t = t \ mean(s[1+(i-1)*5..5+(i-1)*5 , ])
| }
| end

This works, but am I missing a more efficient way of doing this, some
Mata or matrix-algebra trick?

Something tells me that I should be able to avoid looping here.

Brendan
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