Using Stata 7
I am trying to run two loops of varlists simultataneously. Dual "foreach" crashed the program (that was a first!) so I settled for a "for" loop within a "foreach" loop. My ignoble little interactive program looks like this:
foreach nvar of varlist var1 var2 var3 var4 {for X in var var5 var6: quietly tab `nvar' X, all\
if r(p)<0.05 {display "Significant at the 5% level: `nvar' `X' p=" r(p) " / " r(p_lr)}}
This program is admittedly a crude stab at data exploration, directly from the Boys own book of statistical horrors. Nevertheless, my problem is that I cannot get the variable from the "for" loop to print out properly. What I want Stata to do is to print the name of row and column variables from a simple crosstab along with the associated chi-square probabilities if the the p-values are under some specified level. Such as:
"Significant at the 5% level: var1 var4 p=0.047 / 0.049"
As it stands, I cannot get the name of the variable used in the "for" loop to print.
Is there a more elegant way of doing this (that works)?
Sincerely,
Jonas Dahlqvist
J�nk�ping International Business School
Sweden
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