--- Nadeem Shafique <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sir you are absolutely right that if a command already exist then
> there is no need for this work. But sir my problem is bit different i
> wish to develop a program that perform MANOVA when raw data is not
> available, only mean vectors and Variance-Covariance matrices are
> given. I hope now can you understand my problem.
The logical syntax for such a command would involve adding the mean
vector and variance covariance matrix as Stata matrices. As these two
are the sufficient statistics of a MANOVA, you won't need to let mata
interact with the Stata data.
-- Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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