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Re: st: Calculate average elements matrix (below the diagonal )
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John Antonakis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Calculate average elements matrix (below the diagonal )
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Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:51:25 +0200
That brilliant!
Thanks. Nick.
Best,
J.
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On 11.09.2012 11:28, Nick Cox wrote:
> There are probably more elegant ways to do it, but this works:
>
> sysuse auto
> corr price mpg rep78
> mata
> C = st_matrix("r(C)")
> mean(abs(select(vech(C), vech(C) :< 1)))
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 9:34 AM, John Antonakis
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would like to calculate the average absolute correlations of a
correlation
>> matrix. E.g.,
>>
>> sysuse auto
>> corr price mpg rep78
>> mat A = r(C)
>> mat list A
>>
>> This returns the following three correlations below the diagonal:
>>
>> -.45594895 .00655327 .40234039
>>
>> Specifically, I would like to: obtain the average absolute values of the
>> below-diagonal elements:
>>
>> i.e., dis (abs(-.45594895) + abs(.00655327) + abs(.40234039))/3
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