This sounds like a bad idea. The parameter can be saved
as a scalar or a local macro, but using a variable for
the same number again and again is usually unnecessary.
Still, there might be a good idea, or you might insist, so
if so try
gen rho = _b[/rho]
but consider also
scalar rho = _b[/rho]
Nick
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Oleksandr Shepotylo
> After non linear estimaition which estimates parameters rho
> and sigma of the following form
>
> nl (z=h1*{rho}+h2*{rho}^2+h3*{sigma2}), in(rho -0.5 sigma2 1)
> iterate(200)
>
> I want to generate a variable rho that takes the value of the
> estimated parameter {rho}
>
> gen rho=???
>
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