re: st: s(result) : "12"

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

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while examining how return works, I found that very often (always?)
estimation commands not only issue ereturn-results, as i expected, but
also a sreturn-result, namely (result) : "12". Does anybody why this is,
where it is stored, and what it is used for?

As -help sreturn- tells you, items in the sreturns are associated with programming commands that do parsing, etc. If you start up a fresh Stata session, sysuse auto, reg price mpg, sreturn list, you will find one item in the sreturn. Presumably this is a side effect of parsing the command. I would not worry about it.

Kit Baum   |   Boston College Economics & DIW Berlin   |   http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html
                              An Introduction to Stata Programming  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/isp.html
   An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata  |   http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html


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