I've written this mata function as a solution to my own question yesterday.
horizontal direct product (hdp).
--------begin code------------
version 9.2
local mydir "."
mata:
mata clear
real matrix hdp(real matrix A, real matrix B)
{
assert(rows(A)==rows(B))
real scalar n
real matrix C
n=rows(A)
C=J(n,1,.)
for (i=1; i<=cols(A); i++) {
C=C,(A[.,i]:*B)
}
C=C[.,2..cols(C)]
return(C)
}
mata mosave hdp() , dir(`mydir') replace
end
--end code---------
Note that this code is note effecient but it works.
if you have tow matrix x and y and you want to create z the hdp of x
and y just type
z=hdp(x,y)
Sincerely
AbdelRahmen
2007/10/18, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga <[email protected]>:
> under mata (stata 9.2) I have the following matrices X=a,b,c and Y=d,e.
> I would like to create a new matrix Z=(a:*d, a:*e, b:*d, b:*e, c:*d,
> c:*e) which is an interaction betwenn X and Y's columns.
> Note that in my old Gauss code this task is easy to ny typing
> Z=X*~Y
> Any help?
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> AbdelRahmen El Lahga
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