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st: Looping or macro needed??? - Followup question
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st: Looping or macro needed??? - Followup question
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Fri, 3 Jun 2011 10:28:19 -0400
OK I got the loop working - Thanks Nick!
Next question is how to deal with making a log file
Do I put the log statement outside the loop and make one log file
containing results of all 8 datasets?
Or do I put the log command inside of the loop and make a log file for
each?
Neither seems to be working on my first attempts.
Is the clear command wiping out the log statement?
foreach s in aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg hhh {
use "P:\ProjectName \Mat070809_`s'.dta, clear
...
}
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Re: st: Looping or macro needed???
A loop could be
foreach s in aaa bbb ccc ddd eee fff ggg hhh {
use "P:\ProjectName \Mat070809_`s'.dta, clear
...
}
Nick
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Jennifer A Hoff
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I am running a regression and calculating a couple of difference in
> difference using data set Mat070809_aaa.
>
> Ie. use "P:\ProjectName \Mat070809_aaa.dta"
>
> I have the do file up and working for this one dataset.
>
>
> I now need to repeat the same regression for 7 more data sets
> Mat070809_bbb, Mat070809_ccc, Mat070809_ddd, Mat070809_eee,
Mat070809_fff,
>
> Mat070809_ggg, Mat070809_hhh
>
> I am a very new Stata user but it seems to beg for some type of looping
or
>
> macro.
>
> Especially when I anticipate having to re-run each of the 8 regressions
> with 3 strata! - Running 24 separate do files seems inefficient.
>
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