RE: st: How define an asymmetric matrix on .dta file as an asymmetric matrix in Stata?

[Erik Aadland <erikaadland@hotmail.com>]

Thank you, Nick.
 
Kind regards,
 
Erik.
 


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> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:24:52 +0100
> Subject: Re: st: How define an asymmetric matrix on .dta file as an asymmetric matrix in Stata?
> From: njcoxstata@gmail.com
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> Nick
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> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Erik Aadland <erikaadland@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > I have fairly large asymmetric matrices (e.g. 200 by 200) from which I want to compute eigenvalues using the command:
> >
> > matrix eigenvalues r c = A
> >
> > Each of my asymmetric matrices are stored as separate .dta files and have the following general structure:
> >
> > A B C D
> > A 0 0 1 0
> > B 2 0 0 1
> > C 3 1 0 2
> > D 1 0 2 0
> >
> > How do I define each of these .dta files as the asymmetric matrix A so that Stata understands that the matrix in the .dta file is in fact an asymmetric matrix? As far as I can see, I need to do this in order to execute the command: matrix eigenvalues r c = A
> >
> >
> > Is there a simple command/way to accomplish this?
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