Re: st: [Stata8] estimates hold?

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 18:15 02/05/2005, Heather wrote:

> Dear Listers-
> I have a program that takes about 1/2 hour to run. If I want to fiddle 
> with some post-estimation commands and predictions, is there a way to hold 
> the estimates even if I have to shut down my computer at night?  I don't 
> want to have to re-run the program just because I have to shut down or 
> restart the computer.
>
> I thought -estimates hold- might be an option but 1) I didn't know if/how 
> restore worked after the Stata session ends, and 2) I have a simultaneous 
> equations model with more than 20 variables (I only need some of the 
> coefficients in the model for my predictions, however.).
If you want to save estimation results to disk and recall them later with 
the ability to -predict-, then a good tool is Mike Blasnik's -estsave-. 
downloadable from SSC. If you only wanted to store estimates, confidence 
intervals, P-values, number of observations and other estimation results, 
then use -parmest-, also downloadable from SSC. To install either package 
within Stata, use the -ssc- command.

I hope this helps.

Roger



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