Do you mean the distance to the sample mean? At some point, I wrote an
-egen- extension that does Mahalanobis distances, although most likely
it is not -byable- as you might need it to be. I can put it online
although it might take me some while to dig it out... and even more
time to write ten lines of a help file :))
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Angel Pita-Duque <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to calculate the Malahanobis distance matrix for a data set that
> consists of 13 variables related to attributes of 156 maize varieties. For
> each variable I have 15 observations (replications). I do need calculate the
> distance matrix and its average for each maize variety bu I have not been
> able to do that using Stata.
> I am using Stata 10 IC for Windows that apparently does not include the
> Malanobis distance procedure.
> I appreciate your consideration and help.
> Best regards,
>
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