st: Programmatically determining if predictors have been dropped from a model

["Barth Riley" <BarthRiley@comcast.net>]

Dear Statalist

I am running a series of Monte Carlo simulations using logistic regression.
Occasionally, the regression analysis will drop a variable (due to
collinearity, the variable having only one value, or the variable perfectly
predicting the outcome). I would like to know when a variable has been
dropped in order to prevent my do file from crashing (i.e., when I call test
<indep. Var> and the variable doesn't exit in the model). I have tried using
both logistic and logit functions and neither provide information on the
variables left in the model (i.e., via return list), nor does the confirm
function work with variables as they exist in a model. Does anyone have any
suggestions? 

Thanks in advance

Barth



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