--- On Thu, 5/11/09, Jeph Herrin wrote:
> After an estimation, I often want to get a particular
> element of one of the result matrices, and know I can do
> it as follows:
>
> reg y x
> matrix b = e(b)
> di el("b",1,1)
>
> But there must be a way to eliminate the middleman b? This
>
> reg y x
> di el("e(b)",1,1)
>
> doesn't work, but I'm sure there's a way to reference e(b)
> so that I don't need to store it in another matrix first.
> In fact, I'm sure I knew it once, even.
Say the variable whose coefficient you want is called x,
than you can refer to it as _b[x] (and its standard error as
_se[x]).
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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