In addition Raphael question, I would like ask whether Stata Crop. plans a
netcourse on the econometrics of cross-Section and panel data using Stata as
Stata Corp recently introduced a netcourcse on the econometrics of time
series using Stata.
Best regards,
Simo
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Raphael Fraser
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: st: Mata - what comes after -st_addvar-?
Bill,
Any plans for a Mata netcourse in the future?
Raphael
On 9/5/06, William Gould, Stata <[email protected]> wrote:
> Danielle <[email protected]> wrote,
>
> > Suppose I have a columnvector in Mata. I know I can use -st_addvar- to
add a
> > variable to the Stata dataset. But how do I fill in the values of that
> > variable with the values of the Mata columnvector? (By now, I have pored
> > through the manual, and I canno t find a reference to this!) Thanks,
> > Danielle
>
> You use -st_store()- and I apologize that, in the Also See in
> [M-5] st_addvar(), that was not mentioned.
>
> Let's use the auto data,
>
> . sysuse auto, clear
>
> The auto data has 74 observations, so let's create a 74 x 1 vector and
> then use -st_addvar()- to create new variable -example- in the Stata
> dataset:
>
> . mata
>
> : x = J(74, 1, 2)
>
> : st_addvar("float", "example")
> 13
>
> : st_store(., "example", x)
>
> : end
>
> . describe
> <output shows now variable example>
>
> . list
> <output shows new variable example contains 2 in every
observation>
>
> -- Bill
> [email protected]
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