Re: st: matrix colnames, Kronecker direct products, and factor variables

[Steve Samuels <sjsamuels@gmail.com>]

Sorry, you asked about factor names in matrix A. You are quite right that they do not
behave like equation names. Whether they *should* is another question.

Steve



Note that factor variable names are not equation names.  The following version (you seem to have switched A & B) produce column names that are a combination of those from A & B.

matrix colnames B = eqn1:_new eqn1:_old
matrix C =  A # B


Steve


On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Doug Hemken wrote:

I don't get what I expect. The documentation I find says the columns of the product matrix, A # B, will have names from matrix B and equation names from matrix A?

But if I have factor variable names for the columns of A, they simply disappear in the product. (I also notice that when I assign column names that appear to be factor variables or interaction terms, Stata alters my labels, usually for the better.)

For example:
matrix A = (1,21 \ 0 ,1)
matrix colnames A = _cons mpg
matrix B = I(2)
matrix colnames B = 0.foreign 1.foreign


matrix C = B' # A
matrix list A
matrix list B
matrix list C


The column labeling on C is not what I expect!
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