Re: st: Esttab - indicate whether control variables are included

[Laura Sunder-Plassmann <lsunderplassmann@gmail.com>]

I uninstalled and reinstalled the esttab package, now it works. There
we go. Thanks for your help again!

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Laura Sunder-Plassmann
<lsunderplassmann@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm, this just won't work for me, bizarre. What version of Stata are
> you using? I'll try to replicate it on a different version. Thanks for
> your help!
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Richard Herron
> <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
>> (And, thanks! That's a neat trick to put strings in the footer!)
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Richard Herron
>> <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Sorry. Now I understand. The following works for me.
>>>
>>> *****
>>> sysuse auto, clear
>>> eststo clear
>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign
>>> estadd local hasrep "No"
>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign i.rep78
>>> estadd local hasrep "Yes"
>>> esttab, drop(*rep78*) scalars("hasrep rep dummies")
>>> ******
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Laura Sunder-Plassmann
>>> <lsunderplassmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, yes, this works, but it treats the row indicating my controls
>>>> as part of the regressors (middle of the table). I would ideally like
>>>> it in the footer. Scalar seems to accept strings at least to the
>>>> extent that it labelled my row correctly, it just did not fill in the
>>>> columns.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Richard Herron
>>>> <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> ****
>>>>> sysuse auto
>>>>> eststo clear
>>>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign
>>>>> estadd local hasrep "No"
>>>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign i.rep78
>>>>> esttab, indicate("Repair Dummies = *rep78*")
>>>>> ****
>>>>>
>>>>> I use the -indicate()- option rather than generating a scalar (which I
>>>>> don't think accepts strings).
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, depending on which Stata version you use, you can specify repair
>>>>> indicators on the fly as -i.rep78- without the -xi:- prefix, although
>>>>> this code still works if you add back the -xi- prefix.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Laura Sunder-Plassmann
>>>>> <lsunderplassmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to use esttab (and estadd) to print regression output with rows
>>>>>> at the footer indicating whether I have used time and/or group fixed
>>>>>> effects. The example here
>>>>>> http://repec.org/bocode/e/estout/advanced.html#advanced006 does
>>>>>> exactly what I need, but I can't replicate it. This is the code:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .sysuse auto
>>>>>> .eststo: quietly regress price mpg freign
>>>>>> .estadd local hasrep "No"
>>>>>> .eststo: xi: quietly regress price mpg foreign i.rep78
>>>>>> .estadd local hasrep "Yes"
>>>>>> .esttab, drop(_Irep78*) scalars("hasrep rep dummies")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This should produce a regression table with a row entitled "rep
>>>>>> dummies" last below the observation count row, with the columns saying
>>>>>> "No" and "Yes" respectively. Except the columns come out blank when I
>>>>>> run this, only the row title is there. I checked that the local macros
>>>>>> are not empty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (There is another example on the website, just above the one I am
>>>>>> looking at, that prints a fixed effects indicator as a row in the main
>>>>>> table rather than at the bottom together with the number of
>>>>>> observations. I can replicate that example, but I want the indicators
>>>>>> to appear in the footer.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Laura
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Laura Sunder-Plassmann
>>> <lsunderplassmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Thanks, yes, this works, but it treats the row indicating my controls
>>>> as part of the regressors (middle of the table). I would ideally like
>>>> it in the footer. Scalar seems to accept strings at least to the
>>>> extent that it labelled my row correctly, it just did not fill in the
>>>> columns.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Richard Herron
>>>> <richard.c.herron@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Try this:
>>>>>
>>>>> ****
>>>>> sysuse auto
>>>>> eststo clear
>>>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign
>>>>> estadd local hasrep "No"
>>>>> eststo: quietly regress price mpg foreign i.rep78
>>>>> esttab, indicate("Repair Dummies = *rep78*")
>>>>> ****
>>>>>
>>>>> I use the -indicate()- option rather than generating a scalar (which I
>>>>> don't think accepts strings).
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, depending on which Stata version you use, you can specify repair
>>>>> indicators on the fly as -i.rep78- without the -xi:- prefix, although
>>>>> this code still works if you add back the -xi- prefix.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Laura Sunder-Plassmann
>>>>> <lsunderplassmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to use esttab (and estadd) to print regression output with rows
>>>>>> at the footer indicating whether I have used time and/or group fixed
>>>>>> effects. The example here
>>>>>> http://repec.org/bocode/e/estout/advanced.html#advanced006 does
>>>>>> exactly what I need, but I can't replicate it. This is the code:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .sysuse auto
>>>>>> .eststo: quietly regress price mpg freign
>>>>>> .estadd local hasrep "No"
>>>>>> .eststo: xi: quietly regress price mpg foreign i.rep78
>>>>>> .estadd local hasrep "Yes"
>>>>>> .esttab, drop(_Irep78*) scalars("hasrep rep dummies")
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This should produce a regression table with a row entitled "rep
>>>>>> dummies" last below the observation count row, with the columns saying
>>>>>> "No" and "Yes" respectively. Except the columns come out blank when I
>>>>>> run this, only the row title is there. I checked that the local macros
>>>>>> are not empty.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any ideas what I am doing wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (There is another example on the website, just above the one I am
>>>>>> looking at, that prints a fixed effects indicator as a row in the main
>>>>>> table rather than at the bottom together with the number of
>>>>>> observations. I can replicate that example, but I want the indicators
>>>>>> to appear in the footer.)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> Laura
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