a Mata function for performing adaptive MCMC, amcmc(), and a suite of functions amcmc *() allowing an alternative …

codes in character string form and their numeric equivalents. The solutions include Stata programs and Mata func- tions for …

a Mata function for per- forming adaptive MCMC, amcmc(), and a suite of functions amcmc_*() allowing an implementation … in conjunction with models set up to work with Mata’s moptimize( ) or optimize( ), or with stand-alone functions. I apply …

introduce a Mata function for performing adaptive MCMC, amcmc(); and I present a suite of functions, amcmc_*(), that allows an … alternative implementation of adaptive MCMC. amcmc() and amcmc_*() can be used with models set up to work with Mata’s moptimize …

Mata is Stata’s matrix language. In the Mata Matters column, we show how Mata can be used interactively to solve … problems and as a programming language to add new features to Stata. The subject of this column is using Mata to solve data …

Mata is Stata's matrix language. In the Mata Matters column, we show how Mata can be used interactively to solve … problems and as a programming language to add new features to Stata. The subject of this column is using Mata to read into … Stata datasets that are formatted difficultly, which involves Mata's file processing and string processing capabilities. …