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Re: st: Matrix subscripts using row and column names


From   [email protected] (Vince Wiggins, StataCorp)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Matrix subscripts using row and column names
Date   Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:33:30 -0500

Bill Gould <[email protected]> explained to West Addison <[email protected]>
why matrix expressions such as

        V["price","price"]

cannot be used in a scalar context.  While I agree complete with Bill's
explanation (I think I am required to by contract), West might be interested
in a "back door" way of evaluating the expression on one line.  Whereas the
matrix subscripting logic is geared toward efficiency, as Bill described, the
-rownumb()- and -columb()- functions are not so picky.  West's original
example,

    . generate sdif = dif / sqrt(V["price", "price"])

will not work.  However,

    . generate sdif = dif / sqrt(V[rownumb(V,"price"), colnumb(V,"price")])

will.


-- Vince
   [email protected]

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