Re: st: Re: Equivalent to matcell in table

[Tobias Friedli <tobias.friedli@access.uzh.ch>]

i totally agree with you! And i have the mentioned book right in front of me :).. But as this calculations are for my bachelor thesis my time frame is very limited,  i have never worked with Stata before, and i just dont have the time to learn all this (it is not even the core topic of my thesis...). i tried to, but till now i was not able to implement it, and at the University of Zürich i don't have anybody to help me with it. The excel calculations are definitely not best way but for me at my level of Skills, the only way possible... But anyways thank you for your advice, i will maybe attend the course in Italy, so i have more skills for future reasearch projects. To all of you Statalists, i really appreciate all your work to help people with Stata Problems, even with noob questions like the questions i always ask... Whitout you guys i would definitely be lost...

i will try the -reshape- and report back. Thanks



On 14.07.2010, at 13:27, Maarten buis wrote:

> --- On Wed, 14/7/10, Tobias Friedli wrote:
>> I already have a excel file with all
>> the Solver stuff set up to do some optimization on a log
>> likelihood function derived from the matrix. I would like to
>> do it in Stata, but i am just do not have the skills 
>> to programm it in stata, this is why i use excel for the
>> optimization.
> 
> That worries me. Regardless of its strenghts and weaknesses,
> Excel just is not made to do this kind of stuff. You really 
> really really want to use purpose written software, like Stata, 
> to this kind of maximization of the likelihood, it is just
> too easy to get it wrong.
> 
> If you want to implement your model in Stata (and I repeat,
> I strongly recommend that you do), than you will want to 
> have this book on your desk:
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/mle.html
> 
> In addition, if you can wait a while, during the next Italian
> Stata Users' meeting there will be a course on programming
> in Stata: <http://www.stata.com/meeting/italy10/>
> 
>> If i use the -outfile-  i get a .txt with some tousend
>> rows and 3 colums. But what i want is to have the matrix (as
>> displayed for -table- , i.e 700 rows and 700 colums). how
>> can i do that?
> 
> You will need to use -reshape- to get your data in the right
> format. 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
> 
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