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st: RE: RE: Re: manipulating matrix elements
Thanks everyone, for providing helpful answers to my question. All your
solutions worked, but I'm going to go with Nick's mata program because
it allows me to use "if," bootstrapping, etc. (Maybe the others' would
too, but I wouldn't know how to make them into programs...)
One further question though. In the program you wrote, Nick, the
entropy calculation isn't standardized. How could it be modified to add
ln(number of cells) to the final value?
Thanks,
Steve
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:24:29 +0100
From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
Subject: st: RE: RE: Re: manipulating matrix elements
Another way to do it is with Mata. That way, zeros
get ignored in the way you would like.
- ----------------------------------- myentropy.ado
program myentropy, rclass
version 9
syntax varlist(min=2 max=2 numeric) [if] [in] [fweight aweight]
marksample touse
qui count if `touse'
if r(N) == 0 error 2000
tempname matname
tab `varlist' [`weight' `exp'] if `touse', matcell(`matname')
mat `matname' = `matname' / r(N)
mata: subroutine("`matname'")
di as txt "entropy" as res %10.4f r(entropy)
return scalar entropy = r(entropy)
end
mata:
void subroutine(string scalar matname)
{
real matrix X
real scalar H
X = st_matrix(matname)
H = sum(X :* ln(X))
st_numscalar("r(entropy)", H)
}
end
- ---------------------------------
e.g.
sysuse auto, clear
myentropy for rep78
Nick
[email protected]
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