st: Variance-Covariance Matrix

[Adrian Stork <storkadrian@googlemail.com>]

Dear all

I'm sorry for asking such a simple question but unfortunately I
couldn't find an answer. How do you get the variance-covariance matrix
in Stata?
I know it's available in postestimations using e(V) but in my case
there is no estimation. Specifically  I got two variables each with
length of 306 that I transformed into a matrix

.mkmat x1 x2, matrix(test1)

Now there must be some way to calculate the variance-covariance matrix
in an efficient way as in other known mathematical software.

Something like:
.matrix cov test1

Am I missing something?
Does anyone have an idea to get the v-cov matrix in some way? Help is
very much appreciated. Thanks.

Best,
Adrian
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