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Re: st: re: getting a list of included variables in estimation


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: re: getting a list of included variables in estimation
Date   Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:29:00 +0100 (BST)

--- Kit Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maarten's point re _rmcoll is well taken, but that merely means you  
> should clean up the regressor list before doing the regression:
> 
> local regressors mpg mpg2 turn turn2
> _rmcoll `regressors'
> regress price `r(varlist)'
> local vv :  colnames e(b)
> local vv: subinstr local vv "_cons" " "
> foreach v of local vv {
> 	test `v'
> }

This code you can obviously be shortened like this:
local regressors mpg mpg2 turn turn2
_rmcoll `regressors'
regress price `r(varlist)'
foreach v of varlist `r(varlist)' {
	test `v'
}

(Kit privately gloated that his code was shorter than mine...)


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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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