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| From | Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> |
| To | "'statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu'" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | st: RE: Syntax for trimming distribution tail In xtabond2 |
| Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:09:05 +0100 |
There is no context here. But even assuming that r(p1) and r(p99) are available from some previous command, the quote characters here are incorrect -- you would need left single quotes as opening delimiters -- and one parenthesis is unmatched. ... if inrange(y, `r(p1)',`r(p99)') is more likely to be what you have in mind. This is not to be construed as supporting trimming distribution tails, in my view a horrible method. Nick n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk Jason Hecht Apparently the following syntax that worked in xtabond did not work in xtabond2: xtabond y l.x1 l.x2 l.x3 if inrange(y, 'r(p1','r(p99)'), noconstant * * 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/