Several. For some problems, check out -ds-.
For this problem, you could
foreach v of var a b c {
qui regress `v' i
di "`v' {col 2O}" _b[`i'] * 42
}
where 42 is a placeholder for some
other number,
and you then can generalise that by putting
any wildcard in place of -a b c-.
Some reading for the weekend:
[P] foreach
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/foreach.html
How to face lists with fortitude.
Stata Journal 2(2):202--222 (2002)
Problems with lists.
Stata Journal 3(2):185--202 (2003)
Nick
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Jason Rachlin
> Does anyone know if there is a simple (or not so simple) way
> to create a
> varlist of all the variables in the dataset. I'd like to
> loop across my
> variables regressing on another variable so I can predict
> values for each
> variable under an assumption about my independent variable.
>
> For example if I have three variables a, b, and c, and
> another independent
> variable i, I'd like to regress a i , regress b i, and
> regress c i and after
> each regression take the coef and multiply it by a value of i
> to predict an
> outcome. The problem is that I have an unknown number of
> variables and I'd
> like to be able take the full list and loop across it.
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