Re: st: RE: Why is stata ignoring ctitle in the outreg command?

[Natalie Trapp <natalie.trapp@zmaw.de>]

I am very sorry. I am new in statalist and had some problems with the 
e-mail server yesterday.
Please apologize the repeated posting of my question.

Natalie.


On 5/5/2010 6:32 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
> I count four versions of this post today! (One repost only is the recommendation.)
>
> -outreg- is a user-written command from SSC. It is extremely popular, but evidently none of its users feels like offering you support. Nor is anyone offering alternative solutions using alternative programs.
>
> I've never used it, but offer two comments:
>
> 1. The question is really that -outreg- is ignoring your -ctitle()- when it is in -append- mode. Stata is indifferent. But that corrected point of view doesn't help solve your problem.
>
> 2. A wild guess is that you must lay down _all_ your column titles at the outset. -outreg- is evidently accumulating extra rows, but it won't go back and change column titles once they have been set up.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
>
> Natalie Trapp
>
> I would like to export my regression results for several regressions
> with the "outreg" command. The problem is that stata ignores my ctitle
> command for the second and third regression results. So in my textfile
> only the first column is labeled with "fertilisers", the second and
> third columns are without labels. I don't understand why.
>
> Stata Commands:
>
> .reg fertilisers x1 x2
> .outreg using "stata_regressionresults_nolog.txt", se bracket nolabel
> title (Table1: Regression Results) ctitle(fertilisers) replace
> .reg energy  x1 x2
> .outreg using "stata_regressionresults_nolog.txt", se bracket nolabel
> ctitle(energy) append
> reg electricity x1 x2
> .outreg using "stata_regressionresults_nolog.txt", se bracket nolabel
> ctitle(electricity) append
>
> Textfile Results:
>
> Table1: Regression Results
>        (1)    (2)    (3)
>        fertilisers
> x1  -156.419    -17.878    36.106
>        [7.909]**    [16.596]    [5.617]**
> x2    10.373    30.433    10.341
>        [2.244]**    [4.710]**    [1.594]**
>
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