Re: st: List of independent variables after estimation

[svsteink@uni-osnabrueck.de]

Maarten,

thanks a lot. This was really fast help.

Sven





> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:44 AM,  <svsteink@uni-osnabrueck.de> wrote:
>> I would like to write a postestimation command for stata.
>> My problem: I do not know how to get a varlist of the independend
>> variables used in the estimation (probit). The only way I came up with
>> is
>> using the user-written indeplist.ado, but I would prefer a solution
>> which
>> do not depends on additional external scripts.
>
> You can see how -indeplist- gets at the names of independent variables
> by typing in Stata -viewsource indeplist.ado-.
>
> The basic trick is that Stata will store the estimates in a matrix
> e(b) and the columnnames of this matrix are the independent variables.
> You can recover those names with extended macro functions (type -help
> macro- and click on the link to extended macro functions).
> Complications occur when your estimation command consists of multiple
> equations (which is not the case with -probit-) or with time-series
> operators and factor variables.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten (author of -indeplist-)
>
> --------------------------
> Maarten L. Buis
> Institut fuer Soziologie
> Universitaet Tuebingen
> Wilhelmstrasse 36
> 72074 Tuebingen
> Germany
>
>
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl
> --------------------------
> *
> *   For searches and help try:
> *   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> *   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> *   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
>
>

*
*   For searches and help try:
*   http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
*   http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
*   http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/