On Sunday, 2006/11/05, Le Wang [[email protected]] wrote:
> I have a question regarding Mata. Suppose I have an imaginary matrix
> with two columns as follows,
> x y
> 2.9479707 .15
> 2.926226 .16
> 2.8994321 .17
> 2.8691981 .18
> 2.8368784 .19
> 2.8035694 .2
> 2.7701303 .21
> 2.7372142 .22
> 2.705299 .23
> 2.6747184 .24
>
> I want Mata to return the maximum values of column 1 (x) AND its
> corresonding values in column 2 (y), in this example, 2.9479707 and
> 0.15. I understand I can use -rowmax- to find the maximum, but I am
> not quite sure how to find the corresponding value.
>
Have a look at the mata function maxindex()
(-help mata maxindex()-).
If the above data was collected in one matrix X,
you could then do something like:
i = J(0,1,.) ; w = J(0,2,.)
maxindex(X[,1], 1, i, w)
// max value might not be unique:
// one row per max value
output = J(length(i), 2, .)
output = ( X[i,1] , X[i,2] )
If values in X[,1] are unique, you don't have to
worry about the matrix w.
/Jesper
-- Jesper Kj�r Hansen
mailto:[email protected]
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