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Re: st: -gen double- or -gen-


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: -gen double- or -gen-
Date   Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:38:08 +0000 (GMT)

--- On Mon, 16/3/09, [email protected] wrote:
> I am trying to make a *symmetic* matrix M like:
> 
> 
> h11
> h21  h22
> h31  h32  h33
> h41  h42  h43  h44
> 
> The codes:
> 
> gen double??? h11
> gen double??? h21
> gen double??? h31
> gen double??? h41
> gen double??? h22
> gen double??? h32
> gen double??? h42
> gen double??? h33
> gen double??? h43
> gen double??? h44
> 
> mkmat h*, mat(M)
> 
> What's the difference with and without -double-?

If your aim is to create a symetric matrix, you 
should not use -gen- anyhow. For more on how to 
create a matrix see: -help matrix define-.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

Ps. the difference between -gen- and -gen double-
is explained in -help data types-

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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