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Re: st: OLS regression in STATA - missings


From   Philip Ryan <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: OLS regression in STATA - missings
Date   Sun, 5 Oct 2008 23:09:59 +1030

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Phil

Quoting [email protected]:

> Dear Stata users ,
>
> I am using this command to run a OLS regression:
>
> forvalues i=1977/2007 {
> reg dependent_var indep_var1 indep_var2  if Observation_Year <= `i', robust
> cluster (firms)
> }
>
> However, STATA displays in this case "no observations" and  it is not
> possible to run the regression.
>
> For instance, in 1980, I have observations of the second independent variable
> and the dependent variable  only, but I thought that STATA would ignore this
> year and continue the regression in 1981 instead. Obviously, it is not the
> case!
>
> So what should I do about this problem ? Any ideas???
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> Bastian S
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-- 
Philip Ryan
Professor
Discipline of Public Health

University of Adelaide
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