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Re: st: manipulate ordering of rows matrices
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: manipulate ordering of rows matrices
Date
Tue, 10 May 2011 09:20:03 +0100
Sorry, but I bail out here as this is no clearer to me. How can the
first example be correct but the second be what you want? Others may
be able to help.
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:07 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes I'm sorry. What is correct for me in this particular case, is that for
> example for columns 3,4&5 (which are in fact dummy codings for a variable
> consisting of 4 categories) the ones are sorted in an upward diagonal:
>
> 0 0 0
> 0 0 1
> 0 1 0
> 1 0 0
>
> But I need this be done generally done as:
>
> 0 0 0
> 1 0 0
> 0 1 0
> 0 0 1
>
> I hope this makes it more clear,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
>>Quoting Nick Cox <[email protected]>:
>
>> It would help if you explained the essence of the difference. What
>> makes X2 sorted correctly?
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 8:32 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm having trouble with the following in Mata:
>> >
>> > From a large matrix X, I need a new matrix with unique values/rows. As an
>> > example, when I use :
>> >
>> > x1 = uniqrows(X)
>> >
>> > Then, the matrix given is:
>> >
>> > x1 = (
>> > 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,1,0,0,1,0,0,1\
>> > 1,1,0,1,0,0,1,0\
>> > 1,1,1,0,0,1,0,0 )
>> >
>> > But what I need is:
>> >
>> > x2 = (
>> > 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,0,1,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0\
>> > 1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0\
>> > 1,1,1,0,0,1,0,0\
>> > 1,1,0,1,0,0,1,0\
>> > 1,1,0,0,1,0,0,1 )
>> >
>> > Of course, this can be done easily for just this matrix, but the problem is
>> that
>> > I need the correct matrix as part of an estimation command (thus, the
>> matrices
>> > can be different everytime, dependent on the dataset at hand), so I need a
>> sort
>> > of general way to ensure the matrix is always sorted correctly. However,
>> I've
>> > not find a working strategy yet.
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