Re: st: Mkmat doesn't seem to store the observation values correctly?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

You don't show us your original variable, so we can't see any grounds
for your claim.

Nick

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Tim Streibel <Tim.Streibel@gmx.de> wrote:
> First of all, I am sure that mkmat stores the values correctly, but I dont know in which way it stores them.
>
> All I want to do is creating a matrix from a variable of my dataset (even only 1xT format). However if I use mkmat, matrix list does not yield the original values of my variable (as you can see below). Since I would like to do some calculations with the created matrix, I would like to check whether the matrix contains the correct values.
>
>
> mkmat Ticker, matrix(X)
>
> . matrix list X
>
> X[9,1]
>     Ticker
> r1       8
> r2       9
> r3       2
> r4       1
> r5       5
> r6       4
> r7       7
> r8       3
> r9       6

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