What you ask for is called a local macro in Stata and
is documented under
. help macro
and in [U] 18.3.1. For example,
. local myx "x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 x10"
. regress y `myx'
However, depending on the order of your variables,
. regress y x1-x10
may be equivalent; when that it is true, this syntax
is in my view preferable.
Nick
[email protected]
Wanli Zhao
> Could I create a list of
> variables I use in common in some regressions? For instance,
> x1, x2,...,x10
> are the variables I always use in 5 regressions. To save
> typing, could I
> generate a shortcut named "control", which includes all those
> variables so
> that I only use the name "control" in the regressions? In
> Eviews, it is
> called a "group" of variables. My search did not give me
> anything.
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