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Re: st: vec of upper triangle


From   "David M. Drukker" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: vec of upper triangle
Date   Wed, 9 Aug 2006 07:37:17 -0500 (CDT)

Edwin Leuven <[email protected]> asked if there is

a good (fast) way of putting the upper triangle of a square matrix into a vector?

example:

1 2 3
2 4 5
3 5 6

into:

1
2
4
3
5
6

Yes, use the -vech()- function in Mata. Here is an example.

. mata: ------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to exit) ------------------------------------
: : x = 1::3

: x
1
+-----+
1 | 1 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 3 |
+-----+

: A = x*x'

: A
[symmetric]
1 2 3
+-------------+
1 | 1 |
2 | 2 4 |
3 | 3 6 9 |
+-------------+

: vech(A)
1
+-----+
1 | 1 |
2 | 2 |
3 | 3 |
4 | 4 |
5 | 6 |
6 | 9 |
+-----+


-vech()- does not require that the matrix be symmetric and it uses the
lower triangle in forming the stacked elements.

David
[email protected]

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