Re: st: create predicted values manually using matrices

[Nick Winter <nwinter@virginia.edu>]

-matrix score- will do what you want (except that it creates a variable, 
not a matrix).

note that -predict- will do this even more directly.

- Nick

Joshua A. Shindell wrote:
> Hello, I would like to create predicted values by multiplying my vector
> of estimated coefficients my the matrix of data used in the sample.
>
> I use the following code to extract my vector of coefficients after the
> regression:
> reg depvar indepvar1 indepvar2
>
> matrix coeffs=e(b)
> matrix list coeffs
> matrix coeffs = coeffs'
> matrix list coeffs
>  
> I have tried using the following code to extract my data values:
> local varnames : rownames(coeffs)
> local k = rowsof(coeffs)
> matrix values = J(`k',1,1)
>
> Where I am looking for some help is with filling the matrix named values
> with the values of each variable for each observation so I can use the
> values and the estimated coefficients to generate a predicted value.
>
> Any help is be greatly appreciated.
>
> Josh Shindell
>
>
>
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