st: re: converting macros into variables

[Christopher Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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Luhang said

The circumstance is that my statistics are based on summaries of  
different sub-samples and I store them in macros along the way. The  
final product I want is a table showing all the statistics I  
construct, thus I just want to convert the macros I've kept into  
numeric variables. I know -collapse- provides a way of going from  
observations to statistics, but it doesn't seem to be more efficient,  
or at least feels less intuitive to me, when I need to work across sub- 
samples. Again, thanks for all the help.

If what you want is a table containing results from a number of  
different estimations, use a Stata matrix to hold them. Then you need  
only keep track of the cells into which you would like to place  
results from a given subsample. This is discussed at some length in  
IMEUS, link below.

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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