Re: st: mata conformability error, but matrices are conformable

[Misha Spisok <misha.spisok@gmail.com>]

Thank you, Professor Buis!

This works (of course), but I have a further question about forcing a
`noconstant' in the regression (I think I'll need e(b) to exclude a
constant if my sketch continues as imagined).  I have tried a number
of things, but I cannot get it to work the way I'd like it to work.
For example (same code with one change at regression -poisson-, though
I have the same problem with -regress-),

program calcp, rclass
   version 10.1
   syntax varlist [if] [in]
   marksample touse

   gettoken lhs rhs : varlist

   poisson `lhs' `rhs' if `touse', noconstant   /* CHANGED: to try to
force it to omit a constant */
   mata: makexb("`rhs'", "`touse'")
end

mata:
void makexb(string scalar rhs, string scalar touse)
   {
       real matrix X
       real rowvector b
       real colvector Xb
       real scalar idx

       X = st_data(., tokens(rhs), touse)
       X = X, J(rows(X), 1, 1)
       b = st_matrix("e(b)")
       Xb = X*b'
       idx = st_addvar("float", "Xb")
       st_store(., idx, touse, Xb)
   }
end

I also tried changing the -syntax- line by including a non-optional
noconstant option: , noconstant.  When I try the above code, I get no
constant (as desired), but I get this error:

                       *:  3200  conformability error
                makexb():     -  function returned error
                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
r(3200);

If I make the following changes:
   syntax varlist [if] [in] [,noCONStant]
   poisson `lhs' `rhs' if `touse', `noconstant'

then I get a constant _and_ the same error.

If, instead, I make the following changes:

   syntax varlist [if] [in] , noCONStant
   poisson `lhs' `rhs' if `touse', `noconstant'

I, again, get a constant _and_ the same error.

Example for error:
sysuse auto, clear
local xlist mpg-length
calcp price `xlist', noconstant

Thank you again.

Yours,

Misha


On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 8/5/10, Misha Spisok wrote:
>> > I am getting the following error due to some code I
>> > have written (given below with complete, but short,
>> > working example to reproduce the error):
>
> --- On Sat, 8/5/10, Maarten buis wrote:
>> The changed code below works:
>
> My earlier code, as well as the original code,
> ignored the selection of observations stored in `touse',
> so the Mata function can be better written as:
>
> *------------------ begin code ---------------------
> mata:
> void makexb(string scalar rhs, string scalar touse)
>    {
>        real matrix X
>        real rowvector b
>        real colvector Xb
>        real scalar idx
>
>        X = st_data(., tokens(rhs), touse)
>        X = X, J(rows(X), 1, 1)
>        b = st_matrix("e(b)")
>        Xb = X*b'
>        idx = st_addvar("float", "Xb")
>        st_store(., idx, touse, Xb)
>    }
> end
> *--------------- end code -----------------
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
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