A third alternative to your search is to look at the program
itself. It is just more Stata.
After your command you have a new matrix -r- in memory,
so its elements are
r[1,1], r[2,1], ....
In the help,
matsum A [, row(mat_name) column(mat_name) all(mat_name) display format(fmt)]
Computes and/or displays the row-wise, column-wise and over-all maximum,
minimum, and sum over the elements of a matrix. More than one operator may
be specified simultaneously. These commands default to the column-wise
operators.
the implication is that you are naming a new matrix with whatever you
supply as mat_name.
Nick
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Fabrizio Gilardi Ph.D.
> I've been using the -matsum- command written by Jeroen Weesie. I
> would like to access the results (notably the sums of rows) to use
> them in further operations: how can I do this? I've perused the help
> and Statalist's archives, but I couldn't find a solution.
>
> Example:
>
> . matrix A=(1,2,3 \ 4,5,6)
>
> . matrix list A
>
> A[2,3]
> c1 c2 c3
> r1 1 2 3
> r2 4 5 6
>
> . matsum A, r(r) d
>
> row-wise sums of matrix A[2,3]
>
> c1
> r1 6
> r2 15
>
>
> How can I access the sum of the first row of A (i.e. 6) and that of
> the second row of A (i.e. 15)?
>
> I'm still using Stata 7, but I should receive Stata 9 soon.
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