In general, it's a bad idea on two grounds:
1. Efficiency. Holding the same number again and again in every
observation of a variable (that's how it works) impacts storage.
Sometimes that can be limiting.
2. Style. Single numbers can be held in macros or scalars, which is
better style.
For your application, which Martin didn't know about when he made his
otherwise very sensible comment, it is a good idea, but you should
almost certainly be letting -statsby- do the work for you.
Nick
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Dorothy Bridges
Why is storage in a variable not
recommended? I am doing this so that I can make a histogram comparing
the elasticities (coefficients) from a dozen different regressions.
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