Alexander Severinsen
>
> I would like to define variables in a namelist. I am used to Limdep
> where this is easily done with: namelist; x = var1 var2 var 3 etc. This
> makes it easy to later do analysis on the variables in the list f. ex :
>
> regress depvar x(varlist)
>
> I tried to look for this in the manual for Stata but could not find it.
> Does anyone know how to define this in Stata?
>
Sounds like a case for using a local macro.
local vars "var1 var2 var3"
regress depvar `vars'
See [U] 21.3.1.
Nick
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