Re: st: create a variable with estimated coefficients on dummies

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

I wouldn't approach it this way. You can save the coefficients to a
different dataset

sysuse auto, clear
xi : statsby , by(foreign) : regress mpg i.rep78
reshape long _b_Irep78_ , i(foreign)

. l

     +--------------------------------------+
     |  foreign   _j   _b_Ir~78_    _b_cons |
     |--------------------------------------|
  1. | Domestic    2      -1.875         21 |
  2. | Domestic    3          -2         21 |
  3. | Domestic    4   -2.555556         21 |
  4. | Domestic    5          11         21 |
  5. |  Foreign    2           0   23.33333 |
     |--------------------------------------|
  6. |  Foreign    3           0   23.33333 |
  7. |  Foreign    4    1.555556   23.33333 |
  8. |  Foreign    5           3   23.33333 |
     +--------------------------------------+

and then (if I understand what you want) -merge- back to the original dataset.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Bernini, Michele
<Michele.Bernini@unitn.it> wrote:
> Dear Statalister,
>
> I am programming a loop to execute  the following operations:
>
> 1- estimate a regression on a big set of dummies (country-hs6 product categories)
>
> 2-create a variable with the estimated coefficients on the dummies. For each observation (row) the value of this variable should correspond to the coeff. on the dummy that assumes value 1 for that observation.
>
> I tried something like that:
>
> gen ch=.
> levelsof hs4, local(lvl_hs4) \\ level at which I run separate regressions
> foreach element in `lvl_hs4'{
> xi: reg Y X i.CH i.t if hs4==`element'
> levelsof CH, local(clist)
> foreach c of local clist {
> replace ch = _b[_ICH_`c'] if CH == `c' \\ here I try to give the variable ch the value of the coefficients
> }
> }
>
> my problem is that the local `clist' includes also the missing category of the dummies, so when it looks for _b[_ICH_`c'] where c = "missing category" the loop aborts. In either words I would either need the local `clist' to include only the dummies created from CH in each regression, or to find another way to do that. I also tried with svmat but then I cannot match coefficients on the new variable 'ch' with the observations with each category in the dummies.

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