Not so sure about that. My guess is that the developers of StataCorp put
this in because they wanted it themselves at a time when reissuing a
command line was a bigger deal than it is now. And once in, circa 1985,
it stayed in.
If you want to emphasise an -if- there are other ways to do it:
local BIGIF if round>7 & round<26 & win==1 & offer==1
table risk info `BIGIF', c(mean return) row col
As people say, hereabouts at any rate, there's a big "if" attached to
that.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
That is good to know. Sometimes I want to give the -if- qualifier more
prominence and this is the way to do it....
Nick Cox
> Martin's surmise is incorrect. Herve's command line is perfectly
legal.
> You can flip back and forth between options and preceding material
> provided you signal that with commas. That goes way way back. It is
not
> explicit in syntax diagrams but it is documented somewhere in [U].
Martin Weiss
> I do not think that you had those commas in your original command...
Herve STOLOWY
>> My command line is the following:
>>
>> table risk info , c(mean return) row col, if round>7 & round<26 &
> win==1 &
>> offer==1
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