st: re: why aren't commands displayed within a foreach-loop

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

If you run this from a do-file you will see:

. foreach x in "mpg" "price" {
  2.         ttest `x', by(foreign)
  3. }

The commands you have given are echoed. Their invocations multiple  
times are not. Easy enough to get the display:

sysuse auto, clear
foreach x in "mpg" "price" {
	di _n "T-test for `x'"
	ttest `x', by(foreign)
}

This will label each test with the variable being tested. You could  
add any additional information in that display statement.

Kit

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


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