Squared difference of each element in a vector

[elmst616]

Hi I'm sorry this is such a basic question, but I cannot find the answer in Eviews help forum.

I have a 1x10 vector of eigenvalues and I have a scalar mean of those eigenvalues. For each element of the vector, I'd like to subtract the mean, square the difference and sum the squared differences.

In Matlab the syntax would be:

sum((eigen-mean_eigen).^2)

I thought the EViews syntax would be simple and I've been trying this:

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vector C1F3 = @sum((eig_d4 - mean_eig_d4)^2)

But, I'm getting an error message that states "Vector raised to scalar." Which is odd. The result should indeed be a scalar, but I don't understand the problem here.

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[EViews Matt]

Hello,

The ^ operator doesn't perform element by element exponentiation, but the @epow function does.

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scalar C1F3 = @sum(@epow(eig_d4 - mean_eig_d4, 2))


[elmst616]

Thank you Matt!