I'll take these questions in different order.
Nick
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> Suppose the macro:
> local mymacro 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
> how to localise and index the smallest value of the macro?
> I checked with macrolists but there is no answer.
numlist "`mymacro'", sort
local min : word 1 of `r(numlist)'
> Is there a way to get the minimum value of a vector or a matrix?
mata:
------------------------------------------------- mata (type end to exit) --------------------
: m = (1,2,3\4,5,6\7,8,9)
: min(m)
1
: rowmin(m)
1
+-----+
1 | 1 |
2 | 4 |
3 | 7 |
+-----+
: colmin(m)
1 2 3
+-------------+
1 | 1 2 3 |
+-------------+
> Suppose :
>
>
> A[3,3]
> c1 c2 c3
> r1 0 2 3
> r2 1 2 3
> r3 3 1 5
>
> I want to have:
>
> B[3,3]
> c1 c2 c3
> r1 1 0 1
> r2 0 0 1
> r3 0 1 0
>
> where the 1s are true if the value in column j is the smallest.
: m :== (rowmin(m), rowmin(m), rowmin(m))
1 2 3
+-------------+
1 | 1 0 0 |
2 | 1 0 0 |
3 | 1 0 0 |
+-------------+
: m :== (colmin(m) \ colmin(m) \ colmin(m))
1 2 3
+-------------+
1 | 1 1 1 |
2 | 0 0 0 |
3 | 0 0 0 |
+-------------+
> Is there a way to combine (ie: the smallest value of the column
> j AND of the corresponding line i)?
This is one is left as an exercise.
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