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Re: st: plotting histogram of a matrix column
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: plotting histogram of a matrix column
Date
Sun, 7 Jul 2013 17:47:58 +0100
There is one simple answer: copy your matrix column to a Stata
variable and use -histogram-. Anything else will just be roundabout or
approximate.
Nick
[email protected]
On 7 July 2013 17:33, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> You cross-posted this at
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17513134/plotting-histogram-of-a-matrix-column-stata-12
>
> The guidelines to posters about cross-posting to other forums are
> quite explicit at
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/#crossposting
>
> and were drawn to members' attention in
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2013-06/msg01206.html
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> On 7 July 2013 16:53, Stefano Lombardi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Working in Stata12, I need to plot the histogram of the data contained in
>> the column of the matrix MAT.
>>
>> I understand that, probably, a first step requires to use mm_histogram(), as
>> I did in the following example, but then I do not know how to proceed
>> (either in Stata or in Mata).
>>
>> *---------------- start example ------------------
>>
>> mata:
>>
>> mata mlib index
>>
>> MAT = uniform(100, 1)
>> hist_data = mm_histogram(MAT)
>>
>> end
>>
>> *----------------- end example -------------------
>>
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