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Re: st: spatwmat "matrix not symmetric"
From
Scott Merryman <[email protected]>
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Re: st: spatwmat "matrix not symmetric"
Date
Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:13:09 -0600
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Richard Palmer-Jones
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear readers
>
> I get an error from spatwmat which I cannot explain.
>
> The file is square (455 rows & columns), and has values 0/1 in each row
<snip>
Though your data may be square, it not symmetric. You might try -help
mata makesymmetric- or search for the observations that causing the
problem.
To create the eigenvalues -spatwmat- calls -matrix symeigen- which is
generating the error.
Scott
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