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Re: st: names in -svmat- or -xsvmat-


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: names in -svmat- or -xsvmat-
Date   Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:25 +0000

-xsvmat- is from SSC. Please remember...

What you are trying is to specify your own names, but the help for
-xsvmat- implies that at most you can specify a stub.

 names(string) names the variables string1, string2, ..., stringn, where
        string is a user-specified string and n is the number of columns of the
        matrix.

The blame here, if there is any, goes all the way back to Stata's
-svmat-. Its -names()- option specifies rules for new names; fancy
thinking that one could just give the names!

However, -svmat2- from

STB-56  dm79  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yet more new matrix commands
        (help matcorr, matewmf, matvsort, svmat2 if installed)  . .  N. J. Cox
        7/00    pp.4--8; STB Reprints Vol 10, pp.17--23
        commands to produce a correlation matrix, elementwise monadic
        function of another matrix, selected subsets of matrix rows
        and columns, vec or vech of a matrix, elements sorted within
        a vector, matrix from a vector, and commands to save matrices
        see mata matrix language incorporated into Stata 9.0

allows a namelist. I have not looked at or used it in an age, so can't
vouch for how it works with modern Statas.

Nick

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> OK - I give up. Can someone please given an example of correct usage for the -names- option in -svmat- or -xsvmat- ? Thanks.
>
> Al Feiveson
>
>
> . matrix list A
>
> A[10,5]
>             c1          c2          c3          c4          c5
>  r1   .00821462  -.73199648  -.80059997  -1.3444995  -.73588118
>  r2   .38707652  -1.1705186   .27901232   .33415055  -.62922745
>  r3   1.5611447   .82326399  -.58581245    .6017733   .05173269
>  r4  -1.6878907  -1.4067196   1.0890974  -1.3119514    .0030182
>  r5  -1.1670293  -1.6118597   1.0981531   1.1144127   .47038956
>  r6  -1.2363605  -.10125067   .06286368  -1.0167974   .07966359
>  r7    .6152531  -1.0821879  -.30905276  -.02234645   -.0612078
>  r8  -.30916348   -.6575941  -1.3403386   .80353234   1.7169523
>  r9   .61394245   -.0329281  -.14108694  -2.0729119  -.83697348
> r10   .65664138  -1.4944258   3.2871298  -1.3584897   .36629252
>
>
>
> . xsvmat A,saving(bull,replace) names(y  x1  x2  x3  x4)
> new variables cannot be uniquely named or already defined
> r(110);
>
> . xsvmat A,saving(bull,replace) names(" y x1 x2 x3 x4")
> new variables cannot be uniquely named or already defined
>
> . xsvmat A,saving(bull,replace) names(y, x1, x2, x3, x4)
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> . xsvmat A,saving(bull,replace) names("y, x1, x2, x3, x4")
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>
> . xsvmat A,saving(bull,replace) names("y", "x1", "x2", "x3", "x4")
> invalid syntax
> r(198);
>

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