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Re: st: Problems with matrix multiplication and syminv


From   Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Problems with matrix multiplication and syminv
Date   Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:05:41 -0400

Dear Gareth,
it might be full rank, but is it positive definite? See help for
invsym(M), as I assume you mean invsym() not syminv() as you typed.
In general you don't get a row of zeroes:

mata
:  X=1,2\3,4
: op=X'X
: iop=invsym(outerproduct)


Best, Sergiy Radyakin

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:51 PM, G. Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having problems with matrix multiplication and inverting matrices using
> Stata.
>
> I want to compute the inverse of the outer product of a matrix of variables,
> X Note that a lot of the values of X are zero-not sure if this is
> problematic)
>
> so
>
> matrix outerproduct=X'X
> matrix invouterproduct=syminv(outerproduct)
>
> The problem is when I calculate the syminv, I always get a row of zeros. It
> seems when I change the data, the location of this row of zeros changes.
>
>
> A quick check of the rank of X using mata shows it is of full rank (47), but
> the rank of outerproduct is only 46- I'm not sure why i get this result but
> suspect it has something to do with the fact that I get a row of zeros.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gareth
>
>
>
>
>
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