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st: How domatrix accum and related commands work?


From   Jake <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: How domatrix accum and related commands work?
Date   Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:59:21 -0800 (PST)

I understand that computing with very large matrices is inefficient, and often impossible, given memory constraints.  That said, I am very curious about how commands such as matrix accum carry out matrix algebra.  I wanted to program an iterated least squares algorithm to estimate a mixed model, but I found that I could not do so (either in stata or mata) by brute-force matrix computations.  The matrices were simply too large.  So how do Stata and other programs go about matrix computation in a way that does not swamp memory?

Thanks,

Jacob Felson



      
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