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Re: st: RE: Re: statalist-digest V4 #1868


From   Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
To   Statalist <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: RE: Re: statalist-digest V4 #1868
Date   Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:47:06 +0900

Nick Cox wrote (excerpted):

use auto.dta, clear
ologit rep78 price turn
forval j = 1/`e(k_cat)' { 
	tempvar pre
	local prelist "`prelist' `pre'" 
}
predict `prelist'  

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Nick,

You put the double quotes in -local prelist "`prelist' `pre'"- for a purpose.  
The code works at least in this case without them, and so I'm curious why you 
included them, what the potential pitfall is that they're there to guard 
against.

Joseph Coveney


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