You may be thinking of Jeroen Weesie's -matsum-.
Offhand, I can't think of any reason why anyone
with Stata 9 would prefer that. Nor, I imagine,
would Jeroen if he were to be asked.
STB-39 dm49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some new matrix
commands
(help matfunc, varfunc if installed) . . . . . . . . . . . J.
Weesie
9/97 pp.17--20; STB Reprints Vol 7, pp.43--48
collection of new matrix commands; several for explicit matrices
and a few for implicit matrices (i.e., variables)
Nick
[email protected]
R.E. De Hoyos
Both your solutions work fine, thanks a lot.
I though there was a non-mata matrix function similar to
mata's -sum(C)-
Nick Cox
. mata : sum_r = (sum(C) - trace(C)) / 2
R.E. De Hoyos
>> > Is there a way to to get a scalar containing the sum of the
>> > off-diagonal
>> > elements of a pre-defined matrix?
>> >
>> > For instance, define matrix C as a correlation matrix. I
>> > want to know what
>> > is the sum of correlations between the various elements in C.
>> > Therefore I
>> > need the sum of all elements in C minus the sum of the
>> > diagonal elements
>> > (-trace(C)-) and finally divide it by 2 (I am assuming
matric C is
>> > symetric).
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