Re: st: What does +.01 mean, and what is "mltpr"?

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

Comments below.

Nick

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Manussawee Sukunta <msukunta@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have inherit a handful of Stata codes, which are how I'm learning
> Stata.  For most things I was able to search the internet or Statalist
> or ask someone, but this time I'm really stuck.  They also have no
> owner, so I couldn't ask the author.  So I hope someone can shed light
> on my two questions.
>
> 1.            The following code makes adjustments for price increase
> and inflation to price series at a specific time in the future:
>
>                 local date5c = d(15jan2013)
>                 local imp5ca = (`date5c' - d(31dec2012)) /
> (d(1apr2013) - d(1jan2013))
>                 local imp5cb = (d(31mar2013) - `date5c')/(d(1apr2013)
> - d(1jan2013))
>                 local inf5 = 1.0229
>                 foreach var of varlist price1 price2 {
>                                 replace `var' =
> `var'*(((`inf5'+.01)*`imp5cb')+(`imp5ca')) if time == q(2013q2)
>                                 replace `var' = `var'*(`inf5'+.01) if
> time > q(2013q2)
>                                 }
>
> What does "+.01" do to `inf5'?  I know it's not simply adding .01 to
> `inf5', but besides that I have no idea.

I don't know why you say that. Adding .01 is precisely what it does.
>
>
> 2.            The following code creates "multipliers" using the
> regression coefficients (log linear equation) to use for forecasting:
>
>                 tempname e
>                 qui gen nrmulti_`sn' = 1
>                 local indepvar
>                 foreach varname in varlist exports investments {
>                                 scalar `e' =
> bhat[rownumb(bhat,"`varname':_cons"),1]
>                                 capture confirm v `varname'
>                                 if !_rc {
>                                                 local e1 = int(1000 * `e' )/1000
>                                                 local indepvar
> "`indepvar'"  "`varname' "  "(`e1') "
>                                                 mltpr  `varname'
>                                                 replace `varname'_mltr
> = `varname'_mltr ^ `e'
>                                                 replace nrmulti_`sn' =
> `varname'_mltr * nrmulti_`sn'
>                                                 }
>                                 }
>
>
> What does the line "mltpr `varname'" supposed to mean?  I tried
> searching for "mltpr," but I came up empty.

-mltpr- is presumably the name of a program somewhere else in the same code.
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