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Re: st: transpose question
From
"Airey, David C" <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: transpose question
Date
Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:33:20 -0500
.
Thank you!
Where does one start to understand use of Mata for data manipulation in the documentation? Don't say at the beginning. :)
-Dave
> Once you work out the syntax to move data into Mata matrices, all the manipulation in Mata is _much_ easier than handling matrices in Stata.
>
> Stata's (and Mata's) matrix cross-product functions in many cases allows you to work with a K x K matrix, avoiding holding a larger K x N matrix.
>
> John
>
> On Jul 21, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Airey, David C wrote:
>
> > .
> >
> > Stata's data tables are limited to 32,767 variables.
> >
> > In Mata, matrices are limited only by the amount of memory on your computer.
> >
> > For very large row column transpose problem, do other users
> > break the data set into smaller pieces, transpose and then put it back
> > together in Stata? Or do you somehow use Mata?
> >
> > -Dave
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