If they are worth keeping, -generate- them as permanent
variables.
Otherwise, to make them more intelligible to the user,
attach variable labels to them and use the variable
labels in displays. Renaming is, I guess, not what
you should be thinking of here.
Nick
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Vera Troeger
> I have defined temporary variables (tempvar) in a program. Those temp
> variables are subsequently used in different etimations. In the stata
> estimation output they are then named automatically _000003
> and _000004.
> I would like to rename them, so that the user of the program
> knows what they are meaning.
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