Hi Stephen,
If you receive any further information off the list on this issue, would
you please make it available on the list? I share your interest in this,
it would be tremendously useful if the capability to store models existed
in Stata as you describe below .
If it is at all helpful, I run some gllamm models that take very long times
to run also, and in cases where I may need to refit the models at a later
time I save transpose e(b)' using -svmat- or -svmat2-, when I rerun the
model I use -mkmat- and the "from() copy" option of gllamm with the
transpose of the saved matrix ; this reduces the time needed to refit the
model, unfortunately it often remains a lengthy , albeit usually
substantially shorter, task to refit the model.
If Stata Corp is listening, storing models is a feature available in other
stats packages I use such as S-Plus, and apparently would be useful for
some Stata users.
Buzz Burhans
At 01:41 PM 11/13/2003 -0600, you wrote:
I am a fairly experienced Stata user but not a Stata programmer, so my
apologies if this is a bit elementary. How do I permanently save the
results of models so that I can replay/reuse models after rebooting my machine?
The user command "estimates store name" seems to only keep the results
of a model somewhere in memory for replaying/reusing/displaying during a
single active session. If I estimate some models, invoke the "estimates
store" command, save the dataset, exit Stata and come back later, issuing
the command "estimates restore name" does not seem to bring back any of my
previously estimated models. I would like to be able to issue a command
such as "estimates store name....filename" so that I can do the things
described in [U] 23.3 through [U]23.8 even if I exit Stata and come back
later. For example, if I estimate a model with xtprobit or gllamm that
takes several hours to run and then I decide next week that I want to play
with it some more, I have to re-estimate the model.
I presume (correct??) that I can do what I want if I invest in learning
to program Stata using the _estimates, ereturn, sreturn etc. commands. Is
there no easier way?
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