I apologize for not including all the commands like the FAQ states. I
am new here and will make sure to do that in the future.
It turns out that I had a syntax error in my code that caused the
problem (all the more reason to actually include all the commands).
William
On Feb 11, 2008 1:55 PM, Steven Samuels <[email protected]> wrote:
> It looks like you are trying to run the -predict- statement inside
> some kind of double loop. I don't know the innards of -predict-, but
> I'd guess it is trying to create the same variable for every value of
> the loop arguments. If you had done "generate temp =foobar" inside a
> loop, this would generate an error that the 'variable already
> exists'; perhaps your error is the same. If the loop did the
> prediction for the first time through on both arguments, that's the
> problem. There are many possible solutions, including naming the new
> variable by appending "i" and "t".
>
> Maybe: "predict temp`i'`t' if ..."
>
> Statalist FAQ state that you should show all the commands and all the
> output that Stata generated. As Nick states, you haven't listed
> enough for us to really know what went wrong.
>
> -Steven
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 11, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
>
> > This worked for me.
> >
> > sysuse auto
> > regress mpg weight
> > predict foobar if rep78 < 3, stdp
> >
> > I guess that you are doing something different that you are not
> > telling us, e.g. using a command other than -regress-.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > William Bishop
> >
> > I would like to run predict with the IF condition after a regression,
> > using the stdp option at the same time but am getting the error
> > "option stdp not allowed"
> >
> > predict temp if id=="`i'"&n==`t', stdp
> >
> > seems pretty basic. what am I missing? maybe I misunderstood the
> > documentation on predict, but I thought this was doable.
> >
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