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st: On calling a mata-defined function in Stata
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Dorothy Bridges <[email protected]>
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st: On calling a mata-defined function in Stata
Date
Wed, 11 May 2011 07:19:15 -0700
I found in the archives the following comment regarding calling a
function in Stata: "or you can write a Mata function which you call
from Stata ... [which] is often more elegant." I've tried
unsuccessfully to find instructions on how exactly to go about this.
What I'd like to do, I think, is:
Mata:
function f(x) return(x^2+2x)
In Stata
sca x=5
sca y=&f(x)
But, clearly, I don't know what I'm doing. Many thanks in advance.
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