Dear Nick,
Thanks a lot. I converted a lower-triangular matrix from stata to mata form to apply the mata makesymmetric command but it doesn't work.
The command is
: makesymmetric(mat_S2)
[symmetric]
1 2
+---------+
1 | 0 |
2 | 1 0 |
+---------+
Would you have any suggestion?
Best,
Bianca
. mat foo = J(6,7,42)
. mat li foo
foo[6,7]
c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7
r1 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
r2 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
r3 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
r4 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
r5 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
r6 42 42 42 42 42 42 42
. mata : mat_foo = st_matrix("foo")
. mata : mat_foo
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+------------------------------------+
1 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
2 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
3 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
4 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
5 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
6 | 42 42 42 42 42 42 42 |
+------------------------------------+
. mata : st_matrix("foo", mat_foo :/ 7)
. mat li foo
foo[6,7]
c1 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c7
r1 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
r2 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
r3 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
r4 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
r5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
r6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
--- On Thu, 11/1/12, Bianca B. <bianca268@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Bianca B. <bianca268@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Stata matrix to Mata matrix form
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Date: Thursday, November 1, 2012, 7:25 AM
> Hi Stata users,
>
> Does anyone know how can I get stata matrix in mata matrix?
>
> Bianca
>
>
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