Re: st: foreach command

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 2012 Beal 22, at 17:13, Caliph Omar Moumin wrote:

> I wanted to regress a data with many categories so i used this command
>  by subchapter2, sort: xtreg cost duration sex agegroup group, re robust
>  
> the problem is this command does not accept xi: command to change the var 'agegroup' into dummy variable
>  
> then i try to use foreach command, and i appplied it like this
>  foreach subchapter2_value in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {
> xi: xtreg cost duration sex i.agegroup group if subchapter2== `subchapter2_value', re robust
> }
>  
>  
> Now the problem is i cannot see the label name in the later case

This is a nuisance. The solution I adopt is

foreach subchapter2_value in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {
di "*================================================*"
di "* Results for Subchapter `subchapter2_value'     *
di "*================================================*"
di
di
xi: xtreg cost duration sex i.agegroup group if subchapter2== `subchapter2_value', re robust
}
 
This prints an old-fashioned ASCII banner in the output. However, I miss the option to echo the command during execution, as happened with the now-deprecated -for-

Ronán Conroy
rconroy@rcsi.ie
Associate Professor
Division of Population Health Sciences
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Beaux Lane House
Dublin 2


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