Re: st: RE: Determining the eigenvectors from a matrix

[Kaleb Michaud <kaleb@arthritis-research.org>]

Sorry, I should have been more specific.  I'm looking to find the 
eigenvectors of a non-symmetric square matrix.
Kaleb...

At 07:49 PM 3/27/2003 +0000, you wrote:

> > I have a matrix, I can get the eigenvalues from the matrix eigenvalue
> > command, but I am unsure how to get the eigenvectors.  Now,
> > from what I remember of linear algebra, I can always do this by hand
> > and solve for the n values of each eigenvector per eigenvalue, I just 
> didn't
> > want to have to create a laborious Stata program that did the same thing
> > (solving for multiple unknowns with multiple equations).  The only
> > mention of the word eigenvectors in Stata are with pca and factor and 
> that is
> > for variables only (and these are not correlation/covariate matrices so I
> > can't imagine corr2data plus pca would work).
> >
> > If there's an easy solution that I've missed, please
> > forgive me, but I do appreciate your attention and help.
>
> For the symmetric matrix case, see
>
> help matsym
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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