Dear Ben:
As usual, I sincerely appreciate your help. I tried the two solutions
and they both work. I prefer the second one for the following reason: in
my table, I get the results from two regressions:
- model 1: with var1 and var2
- model 2: with var1, var2 and var3.
With your solution 1, I get twice the predicted sign column (once with
each model).
With your solution 2, I get it once and where I want, i.e. before the
model 1 with two variables but with the signs for three variables. (I
"cheat" by using the model 2 only for generating the signs column before
prsign - + -).
I still have a little remaining problem. In my real estimation (see
below), I need to have the b and p values published.
estout signs m1 m2 m3 m4 using estout_test3, replace substitute(-999 -
999 +) cells ("b p(fmt(%9.3f))") stats (N F p r2 r2_a, fmt(%9.0f %9.3f
%9.3f %9.3f %9.3f) labels ("Number of observations" "F" "Prob>F"
"R-square" "Adjusted R-square")) label varlabels(_cons Constant)
Then, I get for the predicted signs two columns: one with the b and one
with the p. I don't know if I can write -estout- in such a way that, for
the "signs" model, I only get the "b" (i.e. the signs). I looked at the
-estout- help and found something with -drop- and -estimates- but I
don't know what to do.
Another minor element: when I precise the format for the b, the signs
disappear and are replaced by a 0. So, I decided not to add a precise
format for the b. (I can manage the format in excel later).
Excuse me again for these "fine tuning" questions but -estout- is such a
tremendous tool that if you've used it once, you would like to get
everything from it.
Best regards
Herv�
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>>> [email protected] 02/12/05 9:17 PM >>>
Herv� wrote:
>In a regression table, I would like to insert a column with predicted
>signs after the var names. I know that I can do it manually in my excel
>sheet after -estout- but I would like to know if it is possible to do
it
>with -estout-.
There is no simple solution to the problem. You can, for example,
add a matrix indicating the predicted signs to the estimates and then
use -estout- to table both the estimates and the predicted signs.
The problem is of course that you cannot have strings in a matrix.
Thus, use, say, "999" for "positive sign" and "-999" for "negative
sign" and then apply -estout-'s -substitute()- option. An example:
sysuse auto
regress price mpg weight foreign
tempname b
matrix `b' = e(b)
matrix `b' = `b'[1,1..3] //get rid of constant
matrix `b'[1,1] = -999 //neg. sign for mpg
matrix `b'[1,2] = +999 //pos. sign for weight
matrix `b'[1,3] = +999 //pos. sign for foreign
eret2 matrix signs = `b'
estimates store model1
estout model1, cells("signs b") substitute(-999 - 999 +)
Alternatively, store the predictes signs as an own set of
"fake" estimates:
capture program drop prsign
program define prsign, eclass
tempname b V
matrix `b' = e(b)
matrix `V' = e(V)
local i = 0
foreach sign of local 0 {
matrix `b'[1,`++i'] = `sign'999
}
ereturn post `b' `V'
ereturn local cmd sham
end
sysuse auto
regress price mpg weight foreign
estimates store model1
regress price mpg weight foreign, noconstant
prsign - + +
estimates store signs
estout signs model1, substitute(-999 - 999 +)
ben
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