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Re: st: Simulating an AR(1) in Stata
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Simulating an AR(1) in Stata
Date
Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:45:04 +0000 (GMT)
--- On Thu, 24/2/11, Syed Basher wrote:
> Perhaps replacing -gen- with -scalar- ensures rho and s as
> scalars. Maybe I should write:
>
> scalar `rho' = a+(b-a)*runiform()
> scalar `s '= c+(d-c)*runiform()
>
> However, using ` ' reports invalid name, while excluding `
> ' works fine.
It is good style to use `rho' instead of rho, but you first
need to define it as a tempname:
tempname rho s
scalar `rho' = ...
scalar `s' = ...
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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