Re: st: row number corresponding to a column maximum

[Glenn Goldsmith <glenn.goldsmith@gmail.com>]

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For whatever it's worth, the following mata one-liner will also do the
job (using your A, i, and j notation from below):

sort(A,i)[rows(A),j]

Best,

Glenn

Re: st: row number corresponding to a column maximum

Gabi Huiber <ghuiber@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you, Maarten. I already cobbled together something similar. It
can be saved as a .mo file, maybe it helps somebody:

// Mata function for getting value in col i
// on row that corresponds to max in col j
// (that is, the i neighbor of the max in j)
capture mata mata drop maxneighbor()
mata
real scalar maxneighbor(real matrix A, real scalar i, real scalar j)
{
   real scalar k, r, max
   r=rows(A)
   max=colmax(A)[1,j]
   k=1
   while(A[k,j]<max) {
      k=k+1
   }
   return(A[k,i])
}
mata mosave maxneighbor(), dir("${adoroot}") replace
end

Thanks again,

Gabi
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