Declaring Matrix Objects
You must declare a matrix object for it to exist in the workfile. A listing of the declaration statements for the various matrix objects is provided in
“Object Creation Commands”.
Briefly, a matrix object declaration consists of the object keyword, along with size information in parentheses and the name to be given to the object, followed (optionally) by an assignment statement. If no assignment is provided, the object will be initialized to have all zero values.
The various matrix objects require different sizing information. A matrix requires the number of rows and the number of columns. A sym requires that you specify a single number representing both the number of rows and the number of columns. A vector, rowvector, or coef declaration can include information about the number of elements. A scalar requires no size information. If size information is not provided, EViews will assume that there is only one element in the object.
For example:
matrix(3,10) xdata
sym(9) moments
vector(11) betas
rowvector(5) xob
creates a
matrix
XDATA, a symmetric
matrix
MOMENTS, an
column vector
BETAS, and a
rowvector
XOB. All of these objects are initialized to zero.
To change the size of a matrix object, you may repeat the declaration statement. Furthermore, if you use an assignment statement with an existing matrix object, the target will be resized as necessary. For example:
sym(10) bigz
matrix zdata
matrix(10,2) zdata
zdata = bigz
will first declare
ZDATA to be a matrix with a single element, and then redeclare
ZDATA to be a
matrix. The assignment statement in the last line will resize ZDATA so that it contains the contents of the
symmetric matrix
BIGZ.