For the record, my point was that Tom might be better off creating variables in Stata and then using them as matrices in Mata.
Is a stata variable not a lot like a vector?
Daniel
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From: Kit Baum <[email protected]>
Subj: st: Re: moving from Stata to Mata
Date: Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:27 am
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Contrary to another poster's comment, st_view() will not help here.
st_view allow you to access Stata's variables, not matrices or
"vectors" (note that Stata does not have a vector data type; all
"vectors" are matrices with a unit subscript on one dimension. Mata
has true vectors, rowvectors and colvectors).
st_local
st_global
st_numscalar
st_matrix
allow you to do the same with Stata's macros, scalars and matrices.
They all have one- and two-argument forms. The one-argument form
allows you to access the Stata object; the two-argument form allows
you to update the contents (or indeed create) the Stata object. See
help m4_stata
for a complete list of the functions of this nature.
Kit Baum, Boston College Economics and DIW Berlin
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
On Oct 16, 2007, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:
>
> If one is working with program or do file in Stata and wishes to move
> to Mata within the program to use a Mata function for a matrix or
> vector defined in the Stata program, is this possible?
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