--- On Sat, 21/3/09, Jacob Wegelin wrote:
> I'd ideally like to extract a scalar by row and column name,
> since this would be less error-prone.
You can get the indexes using the -rownumb()- and -colnumb()-
functions, and feed these to the -el()- function, like in the
example below
*------- begin example -----------
sysuse auto, clear
reg price mpg foreign
matrix v = e(V)
matrix list v
tempname foo
scalar `foo' = el(v, ///
rownumb(v,"_cons"), ///
colnumb(v,"_cons"))
di `foo'
*------- end example --------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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