I haven't got any gun in my hand, but
I'm not clear that we need this syntax.
Are you asking for what can be done by
... if !inlist(_n,10,100,250)
If that gets tedious, a macro assignment
cuts the typing
local outliers "inlist(_n,10,100,250)"
regress <whatever> if !`outliers'
Note that this could bite you. Sort
the data and the observation numbers
refer to different observations, but
then -suspendin()- as I understand it suffers from
exactly the same problem. So I go
back to my earlier suggestion
to -generate- an in-sample indicate
variable, or the other suggestions made.
See also -inrange()-.
Nick
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Clive Nicholas
> Dimitriy V. Masterov replied to Shuaizhang Feng:
>
> > Your can use preserve/restore to do this:
>
> > preserve
> > keep if age<40
> > reg ....
> > restore
>
> And Nick Cox replied to Shuaizhang Feng with:
>
> > gen mysample = (age < 40) & (nobel_prize == 1) &
> (extrasensoryperception
> > == 1)
> >
> > ...
> >
> > reg ... if mysample
> >
> > See also http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/trueorfalse.html
>
> Running regressions using restricted samples (or by leaving out
> disqualifying observations) is something I've been really
> keen to do for
> quite some time. But solutions such as the ones above seem to
> be the only
> ones available (but that doesn't mean to say that they're bad).
>
> I'm not really one for adding to StataCorp's burden, for they probably
> have enough to do in preparing for version 9. But wouldn't it
> be great if
> one could run a regression in the following way:
>
> . reg tomatoes potatoes onions sausages, suspendin(10 100 250)
>
> so that you could simply suspend the observations without
> having to -drop-
> them for that regression and then have to -restore- the dataset
> afterwards? Desirably, this option would automatically pick up the
> observation numbers as they appear by row in the data editor.
>
> No doubt this idea will be shot down in myriad ways and
> people would say
> that it couldn't work. But, to quote the British comedy duo
> Armstrong and
> Miller, "Yes, but it would be good if it did."
>
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