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Re: st: stcox error when run inside a loop


From   [email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: stcox error when run inside a loop
Date   Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:28:19 +0000

On Wed, Dec 28 2011, Shubhabrata Mukherjee wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am running stcox in a loop and can't seem to suppress the following error:
>
>
> For some variables (temp1-temp20) in the varlist, Stata is erroring out
> because the ML estimation didn't converge for one or more variables. I
> thought 'capture stcox' takes care of this but it seems when it fails to
> converge it has nothing to post and that's the reason for the error.
>
> . ** Cox regression for each variable
> . foreach var of varlist temp1-temp20 {
>           capture stcox `var' `gender age
>           post `out' ("`var'") (_b[`var']) (_se[`var'])  ("a") (e(converged)) 
>   }
>

Try something like this: 

foreach var of varlist temp1-temp20 {
capture stcox `var' `gender age
if !_rc {
  post `out' ("`var'") (_b[`var']) (_se[`var']) ("a") (e(converged)) 
}
else {
  post `out' ("`var'") (.) (.) ("a") (e(converged)) 
}

Brendan
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