st: Mata and subsets...

[Matthew Baker <matthew.baker@hunter.cuny.edu>]

Dear Listers --

I have a question about obtaining subsets and their complements in
mata. To be clear, what I am trying to do is get a listing of both the
subsets and their corresponding complements.

For example,
mata
mm_subsets(4,2)

gives me the subsets:
       1   2   3   4   5   6
    +-------------------------+
  1 |  1   1   1   2   2   3  |
  2 |  2   3   4   3   4   4  |
    +-------------------------+

But the question is: is there also an (efficient, general) way to
obtain the corresponding complements:

       1   2   3   4   5   6
    +-------------------------+
  1 |  3   2   2   1   1   1  |
  2 |  4   4   3   4   3   2  |
    +-------------------------+

I'm hoping for a general method that doesn't depend upon having four
items or the two-element subsets but am baffled about how to do this
without looping, etc.

Thanks in advance!

Matt Baker






-- 
Dr. Matthew J. Baker
Department of Economics
Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
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