code: def vech(mat):
      # Gets Fortran-order
      return mat.T.take(_triu_indices(len(mat)))
  
imports: from __future__ import annotations
  from statsmodels.compat.python import Literal, lrange
  import warnings
  import numpy
  import pandas
  from pandas import DataFrame
  from pandas.tseries import offsets
  from pandas.tseries.frequencies import to_offset
  from statsmodels.tools.data import _is_recarray, _is_using_pandas
  from statsmodels.tools.sm_exceptions import ValueWarning
  from statsmodels.tools.typing import NDArray
  from statsmodels.tools.validation import array_like, bool_like, int_like, string_like
label_desc: Use image node_id 7 for calling a global function with example usage: vech(mat) and returns: mat