Re: st: Storing a correlation matrix

[Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu>]

Thanks Bill and Nick.  As always, there are more than one way to do what 
one wants in Stata.  In this instance, Adrian Mander's  -matpwcorr- does 
exactly what I want and it also gives me the Bonferroni-ps and I can 
plot the whole with his -plotmatrix- !  What more can a man ask for!!

Thanks to all who responded.

m.p.

William Gould, Stata wrote:


> Marcello Pagano <pagano@hsph.harvard.edu> wrote, 
>  
>
> > Bill Gould in 1999 answered the question of how to store pairwise 
> > correlations of a varlist in a matrix--basically calculate the 
> > covariance matrix and then convert it into a correlation matrix.  The 
> > problem with that answer is that it does not use all the data--basically 
> > the difference between -corr-and -pwcorr-.  Does anyone have a better 
> > answer, one that uses all the data, like -pwcorr- does?
> >    
> One solution would be the following Mata function, 
>  
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