st: Re:mata: how function can return several results

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Unlike MATLAB or GAUSS, Mata functions can return any amount of stuff  
(variables, locals, globals, matrices, scalars) using the st_*  
commands. See help m4_stata for details. Your bhat could be returned  
with st_matrix; the easiest way IMHO to return a variable is to  
create it in Stata and use st_view to modify it in Mata.

ssc type hprescott.ado

gives an example of the latter.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata:
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


On Oct 15, 2006, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> how can i tell mata to return 2 results
> res1=bhat and res2=uhat. res1 and res2 are for use in the rest of  
> my programme.
> Ideally I want some thing like this:
> {b,u}=myreg() as can i code in gauss for exemple
> Abdelrahmen El Lahga
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