Re: st: RE: create local from element of matrix e(b)

[Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> I am trying to create a local that equals an element of matrix e(b) produced by Stata following xtreg, fe. In fact, I am trying to get the first element.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> quietly xtreg mdepc wavedi mdis_coh, fe
> . matrix list e(b)
> e(b)[1,3]
>       wavedi   mdis_coh      _cons
> y1  .24873096  .34650713  .83985765

If you don't know the name ahead, but know this is the first element,
then the one-liner is

mata : st_local( "dif", strofreal( st_matrix("e(b)")[1,1] ) )

You'd expect there should be fewer parentheses...

> . local dif = el(e(b), 1,1)
> matrix operators that return matrices not allowed in this context
> r(509);

That this solution does not work is annoying. -el()- is described as a
function returning a scalar in the documentation, but in this context
it only works if you assign the result to a matrix. With the named
matrices, the issue does not arise, though, so the problem is entirely
in the pseudo-function e(b).

-- 
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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