if `l' == 2
is the way to test for equality with 2.
Does this stop _inside_ -outreg-?
Nick
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Ramani Gunatilaka
> Sorry to come up with yet another query so soon after my
> last. But I am stuck.
> I am running regression-based decompositions of consumption
> for three survey years. I want to use outreg so the output
> is formatted nicely. Here is part of my code.
>
> local fname3 "c:\data95\hhineqvar95"
> local fname2 "c:\data90\hhineqvar90"
> local fname1 "c:\data85\hhineqvar85"
> local l=1
> while `l'<=3 {
> drop _all
> use `fname`l'', clear
> regress y var1 var2 var3 etc.
> if `l'<2{
> outreg using ineqdec.out, se bdec(2,5,2) bracket
> noaster ctitle("1985") title ("Decomposition of inequality
> by individual regressor") replace
> }
> if `l'>1 & `l'<3{
> outreg using ineqdec.out, se bdec(2,5,2) bracket
> noaster ctitle("1990") append
> }
> if `l'>2 {
> outreg using ineqdec.out, se bdec(2,5,2) bracket
> noaster ctitle("1995") append
> }
>
> Thereafter the code goes on to
> save Beta coefficients of the regression
> Multiply the variables by the Betas
> regress those variables on y, and
> save those Betas.
> I will spare you those details.
>
> My problem is that the loop runs once right through,
> producing the expected output, then it produces the
> regression output for the second run (1990), but gets stuck
> somewhere at the second outreg. I set trace on, too, but
> couldn't figure out what went wrong.
> The message I get when the whole thing stalls is,
>
> invalid 'and'
> r(198);
>
>
> I suspect something is wrong with my if statement. I
> replaced the second with - if `l'=2{ -
> but that didn't work either.
> Would anybody have any ideas?
> Thanks so much,
> Ramani
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