Antoine, to pass a function, you have to type "&"
followed by the function's name followed by "()".
First of all, in your program change
s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)
to
s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)(x)
then define
function squareofx(x) return(x:^2)
and then type
gaussher(12 , &squareofx())
See -help m2_ftof-.
ben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Antoine Terracol
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: [Mata] passing a function to mata
>
>
> Dear _all
>
> I'm trying to write mata code to evaluate integrals |f(x)g(x) (where
> g(x)is the standard normal pdf) by Gauss-Hermite quadrature
> (I know this
> has been done before in Stata, but I'm trying to learn mata, so I
> thought I might give it a try).
>
> I was able to code for the nodes and weight vectors, but I
> can't figure
> out how to tell mata which fuction f(x) I wish to evaluate.
>
> I want to be able to specify the f(x) function, say x^2, when calling
> the mata program
>
> Here is a sketch of the code :
>
>
> ___________________________________________
> void gaussher(scalar node, funct){
>
> [compute nodes (x) and weight (w) vectors]
>
> x=x:*sqrt(2)
> s=w:/sqrt(pi()):*(funct)
>
> [return stuff]
> }
> end
> ____________________________________________
>
>
>
> If I type -gaussher(12 , x:^2)-
>
> mata complains that "x not found"
>
> but if I type -gaussher(12 , "x:^2")-
>
> mata complains that "nonnumeric found where numeric required"
>
>
> Could anyone point me to the correct way of passing such
> arguments to a
> mata program ?
>
> Best,
> Antoine
>
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