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From   "Alfonso Miranda" <[email protected]>
To   "Statalist" <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: RE: matrix algebra
Date   Tue, 1 Oct 2002 20:03:56 +0100

Dear Nick,

Many Thanks for your valuable help.

Alfonso. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 7:38 PM
Subject: st: RE: matrix algebra


> Alfonso Miranda
> > 
> > I need to calculate a matrix product that has the following form
> > 
> > B = G'YG
> > 
> > where G is a n x k matrix and Y is a n x n diagonal matrix. 
> > My problem is:
> > 
> > (a) G should be formed with information for some variables, 
> > say, a1 a2 a3. I
> > have n observations for each variable.
> > 
> > (a) I have the information of the diagonal of Y in variable 
> > called e. So I
> > need to use e to create matrix Y.
> > 
> > (b) n is very large (more than 20,000 observations) so it 
> > is imposible to
> > create a nxn diagonal matrix  with elements in the diagonal 
> > entries in e.
> > 
> > I guess I need to use something like:
> > 
> > matrix glsaccum B = a1 a2 a3, glsmat(Y)
> > 
> > But first I must define Y. Can anyone help me in this one?
> 
> One way to do it
> 
> . local n = _N 
> . matrix Y = J(`n',`n',0) 
> . forval i = 1 / `n' { 
> . matrix Y[`i',`i'] = myvar[`i'] 
> . } 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
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