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Use a -local-:
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sysuse auto, clear
local myregressors " weight length turn displacement"
regress price weight length turn displacement
*equivalently
regress price `myregressors'
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HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Shuaizhang Feng" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: st: abbreviating a variable list in regression commands
dear all:
i am wondering how to use an abbreviation for a long list of explanatory
variables in a regression command (for the purpose of repeating it).
for example, consider the command:
reg y xyz qwe abc
if I want to use z to refer to the list "xyz qwe abc" so that I can write
something shorter such as:
reg y z
I am not quite clear about the exact syntax that would work. Thanks a lot
for your help.
Shuaizhang
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