st: Re: Writing output to a file

[jean ries <jean.ries@gmail.com>]

Paul Fenner wrote:
>I am using permute on a Kruskal-Wallis test;
>permute var z=r(chi2_adj), reps(10000) nodots nowarn: kwallis var if
>class==6|class==7,by(class)
>and I can obtain the probability from:
>
>.matrix list r(p)
>symmetric r(p)[1,1]
>        z
>y1  .8759
>
>I would like to write this value to a file for subsequent processing 
but I
>am unable to display the matrix element:
>. display r(p)[1,1]
>invalid syntax
>r(198);
>Could somebody point me in the correct direction for displaying matrix
>elements.

To display an element of a matrix, you can do:

. display el(r(p),1,1)

Have a look at -help matrix_function-

If you want to write the information to a file you could do something like:

. file write whatever (el(r(p),1,1))

--jean

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