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Re: st: abbreviating a variable list in regression commands


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: abbreviating a variable list in regression commands
Date   Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:05 +0000 (GMT)


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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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--- On Wed, 25/3/09, Shuaizhang Feng wrote:
> 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

local z "xyz qwe abc"
reg y `z'

Hope this helps,
Maarten


      

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