When Bill says the next issue of the
Stata Journal, he meant the current one.
Nick
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William Gould, Stata
> Ulrich Kaiser <[email protected]> ask,
>
> > My Mata code is
> >
> > mata
> > m_all = st_matrix("all")
> > nom = m_all[1...,2]
> > denom = m_all[1...,3]
> > denom = (denom:/denom)-denom
> > lr = nom :/ denom
> > out = m_all[1...,1], lr, m_all[1...,4], m_all[1...,5]
> > end
> >
> > and I'd like to turn "out" into data format.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> The "Mata Matters" column in the next Stata Journal deals
> with exactly
> this problem. The title of the column is "Creating new variables"
> with the subtitle, "Sounds boring, isn't", although I don't
> know if the editors let me keep that last part.
>
> Anyway, I suggest Uli read that, because I hada lot to say,
> all of it relevant.
>
> In the meantime, let me provide a crude solution to Uli's problem.
>
> First thing, Uli, is to create the variables in the Stata dataset
> to hold the columns of out. In what follows, I will assume those
> variables are named x1, x2, and x3.
>
> Second thing, I assume that the Stata dataset has the number
> of observations
> as out has rows.
>
> Given that, one solution is
>
> st_store(., ("x1", "x2", "x3"), out)
>
> See [M-5] st_store().
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