st: transpose of matrix

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Al wondered how to get a permutation matrix in Mata. Try help  
permutation.

: c
        1
    +------+
  1 |  .1  |
  2 |  .3  |
  3 |  .5  |
  4 |  .7  |
  5 |  .9  |
    +------+

: p
       1   2   3   4   5
    +---------------------+
  1 |  5   4   3   2   1  |
    +---------------------+

: d=c[p,.]

: d
        1
    +------+
  1 |  .9  |
  2 |  .7  |
  3 |  .5  |
  4 |  .3  |
  5 |  .1  |
    +------+



Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


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