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From: "Alejandro Ria�o" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:11 PM
Subject: st: vectors in STATA
> Hi Statalisters,
> I used to program in Gauss, that's why I still think
> about matrixes and vectors when I'm doing my own
> programs. My question is the following
>
> I want to store the correlation between 2 variables by
> each pair of countries and then store this number(that
> would be r(rho)) in a vector, so at the end I would
> have a column with the correlation for each in pair of
> countries as a position in this vector.
>
> Do you know how can i do this in STATA ???
>
There is probably a better way to do this, but here is one method
levels countries, local(levels)
matrix A = 1
foreach x of local levels {
qui corr var1 var2 if rep == `x'
scalar rho`x' = r(rho)
matrix a`x' = rho`x'
matrix A = A \ a`x'
}
matdelrc A, r(1)
Scott
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