st: Re: Saving estimate parms

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

If you want to be able to replay estimation results and use post estimation 
commands on them, then  2 user-written commands may be of interest : estsave 
and eststo (-findit estsave- leads to both).

Michael Blasnik
michael.blasnik@verizon.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Salkov, Rick" <Rick.Salkov@eia.doe.gov>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 11:57 AM
Subject: st: Saving estimate parms



> I am running large models and need the capability of saving model estimate 
> parms
> to a hard disk file and retrieving them.  All the Stata Procs that I can 
> find
> including -estimates- only deal with session storage and disappear when 
> the
> program is closed.
>
> I saw in help _estimates the following:
>
> "    _estimates hold moves, or copies if the copy option is specified, all
> information
>
>    associated with the last estimation command into holdname. If holdname 
> is a
> temporary
>
>    name, it will automatically be deleted when you exit from the current
> program."
>
>
>
> This would imply to me that if holdname were not a temp then one might 
> save parms
> permanently but there are only session references in the code examples.
>
>  Can anyone give me a little code to save and retrieve permanent model 
> parms? 
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