Re: st: Can -bootstrap- handle vectors

[Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez <perez.jorge@ur.edu.co>]

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Jorge Eduardo Pérez Pérez



On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Matthew White
<mwhite@poverty-action.org> wrote:
>
> Good point... But you'll have to be careful when using -st_local()-.
> st_local("test", 1) fails, so you'll have to execute st_local("test",
> "1"). But once you have local test in Stata, you can use it as a
> numeric fine. In my example before, you could execute something like
> st_local("rows", strofreal(rows(X)). Probably better than messing with
> scalars...
>
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> > A side issue: The distinction between numeric and string does not bite here
> > for returning macros to Stata.
> >
> > A local macro is a place for holding character strings, which can be numeric
> > characters. Thus  -st_local()- will work fine regardless of content.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On 13 Aug 2011, at 10:12, Matthew White <mwhite@poverty-action.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't know of a way to use Mata to put numeric values in a local.
> >> st_local only works with string values, I think. But you could return
> >> each element of a Mata vector to separate Stata scalars. Say X is a
> >> Mata column vector:
> >> mata: st_numscalar("r(rows)", rows(X))
> >> forvalues row = 1/`r(rows)' {
> >>   mata: st_numscalar("r(v`row')", X[`row',
> >>>
> >>>
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