Your location for -spearman.ado- is dependent on where it
was installed on your machine and indeed on your OS. In
Stata 9 a more general way to find the code is
. viewsource spearman.ado
as discussed in
SJ-6-1 pr0022 . . . . . . . . . . . Stata tip 30: May the source be with you
Q1/06 SJ 6(1):149--150
tip for using viewsource to locate and view source
code or text files
Also, this as said is Stata 8 code. In Stata 9 -spearman- will
take a more general varlist, although it doesn't leave a matrix in memory.
Herv� indicated privately that -makematrix- from SSC was appropriate
for his problem. This shows that people should close threads publicly,
as Rodrigo was naturally not aware of that email.
The code below is fine so long as you accept the rule
that correlations are calculated only for observations
non-missing across all variables specified, as I
indicated earlier.
Nick
[email protected]
Rodrigo A. Alfaro
> Typing: -type C:\Stata8\ado\updates\s\spearman.ado-
> will show you the code for spearman. It is simple and
> full of comments.
>
> This line "syntax varlist(min=2 max=2) [if] [in]" tells
> you that the command was created for 2 variables only.
>
> The following lines:
> "
> egen `r1' = rank(`1') if `touse'
> egen `r2' = rank(`2') if `touse'
> corr `r1' `r2'
> "
> tell you that spearman is a simple correlation of the
> "ranks" of the variables. Therefore, generate the
> variables and use the same code that you already have.
>
> Example:
> sysuse auto, clear
> egen price_r=rank(price)
> egen mpg_r=rank(mpg)
> matrix accum S= price_r mpg_r, nocons dev
> matrix S=corr(S)
> matrix list S
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