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Re: st: Matrix manipulation
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[email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
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Re: st: Matrix manipulation
Date
Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:30:17 +0000
On Wed, Mar 23 2011, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23 2011, Maarten buis wrote:
>
>> *------------- begin example ------------
>> mata
>> a = 80, 100, 40 \ 10, -6, 7
>> c = 80 \ 10
>> a :/ c
>> end
>> *-------------- end example -------------
>
> Or more generally,
>
> mata
> a = 80, 100, 40 \ 10, -6, 7
> c = a[,1]*J(1,cols(a),1)
> a :/ c
> end
>
> Brendan
Or even just
a :/ a[,1]
Playing with Mata is finally nudging my knowledge of matrix algebra up
from "understand the principles but can never remember the details" to
some level of practical functionality (but only just!).
Brendan
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