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Re: st: Mkmat doesn't seem to store the observation values correctly?
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Mkmat doesn't seem to store the observation values correctly?
Date
Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:50:22 +0100
You don't show us your original variable, so we can't see any grounds
for your claim.
Nick
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Tim Streibel <[email protected]> wrote:
> First of all, I am sure that mkmat stores the values correctly, but I dont know in which way it stores them.
>
> All I want to do is creating a matrix from a variable of my dataset (even only 1xT format). However if I use mkmat, matrix list does not yield the original values of my variable (as you can see below). Since I would like to do some calculations with the created matrix, I would like to check whether the matrix contains the correct values.
>
>
> mkmat Ticker, matrix(X)
>
> . matrix list X
>
> X[9,1]
> Ticker
> r1 8
> r2 9
> r3 2
> r4 1
> r5 5
> r6 4
> r7 7
> r8 3
> r9 6
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