st: Matrices utilities, Basic calculations. When to start using Mata over Stata?‏

[Radaf paf <ladwen@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have a total of 20 matrices, A1-A10 and B1-B10 of size 
25x36

I am trying to do the sum of each row of the matrix A and 
compare them with the sum of each row of the matrix B. Then I retain the
 highest sum and put it in a new matrix, say C.

The "rowsum" utility in Mata is appealing, but I couldn't figure out how to create 
the loops ( no "foreach" command?), generate new matrixes names 
automatically (for the matrices C) and access my 20 matrices within the 
loops in Mata.
 
Here is what I would do if I could use "rowsum" 
in Stata:


foreach n in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 {;

   
 matrix c'n´= J(rowsof(A'n´),1,0)     *I create my matrix c (vector of 
25 rows) containing only 0 values ;
    
    foreach i in 1-25 {; 
        * where i correspond to the number of rows;


       
 R_sum_A'n´=rowsum(A'n´) ;
        R_sum_B'n´=rowsum(B'n´) ;


  
      *I compare the two sums and if the rowsum of A is bigger than B I 
put it in the new matric C, if not I leave it equals to 0 ;

   
     if el(R_sum_A'n´,'i´,1)> el(R_sum_B'n´,'i´,1) 

       
     matrix C'n´['i´,1] =el(R_sum_A'n´,'i´,1) ;



       
 };
 };


But I cannot use "rowsum" into stata . So what would you suggest ?

Thanks a lot 

Raphael 		 	   		  
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