Thanks--your understanding is similar to mine. I was in process of
writing loops for the command when I got to wondering if there might not
be another way....
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On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Nick Cox wrote:
> As I understand it, you can write a program that returns
> matrices, but -simulate- does not offer a way to catch
> them and store them. In any case, what you appear to want
> would just solve one problem by creating another.
>
> If the pain is typing out a long specification, then just
> use a loop upstream of your command to produce the part of
> the command that is repetitive.
>
> forval i = 1/99 {
> local call "`call' b`i'=r(b`i')"
> }
>
> simulate ... `call' ...
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Herb Smith
>
> > I am -simulate-ing a routine that returns numerous parameters
> > of (at least
> > potential) interest: 99 right now (11 coeffs x 9 aspects of estimated
> > sampling distributions...)
> >
> > The example under -help simulate- is comparatively homely: only two
> > parameters returned, as scalars, e.g.,
> >
> > ". simulate mean=r(mean) var=r(Var), reps(10000): lnsim, obs(100)"
> >
> > (Both -mean- and -Var- are -return-ed as scalars in the program called
> > under -simulate-.)
> >
> > Is there a more elegant way to do this? For example, can I
> > -return- to
> > -simulate- one (or more) matrixes? If nothing else, this saves me a
> > statement with 99 iterations:
> >
> > -b11=r(b11) b12=r(b12) ... b21=r(b21) ... b99=r(b99)
>
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