Re: st: matrix colnames, Kronecker direct products, and factor variables

[Doug Hemken <dehemken@wisc.edu>]

As far as I'm concerned, "equation names" and names/sub-names are just two slots for labels, and with a Kronecker product I'd like to be able to keep track of both sources. I'm mostly surprised that this doesn't work like the documentation suggests. I can think of at least two work-arounds, although neither is as simple. But I'd like to understand why this doesn't just work: it is certainly possible to put factor-like text in equation names directly.

On 12/04/13, Steve Samuels  wrote:
> Sorry, you asked about factor names in matrix A. You are quite right that they do not
> behave like equation names. Whether they *should* is another question.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
> Note that factor variable names are not equation names. The following version (you seem to have switched A & B) produce column names that are a combination of those from A & B.
> 
> matrix colnames B = eqn1:_new eqn1:_old
> matrix C = A # B
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Doug Hemken wrote:
> 
> I don't get what I expect. The documentation I find says the columns of the product matrix, A # B, will have names from matrix B and equation names from matrix A?
> 
> But if I have factor variable names for the columns of A, they simply disappear in the product. (I also notice that when I assign column names that appear to be factor variables or interaction terms, Stata alters my labels, usually for the better.)
> 
> For example:
> matrix A = (1,21 \ 0 ,1)
> matrix colnames A = _cons mpg
> matrix B = I(2)
> matrix colnames B = 0.foreign 1.foreign
> 
> 
> matrix C = B' # A
> matrix list A
> matrix list B
> matrix list C
> 
> 
> The column labeling on C is not what I expect!
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