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Re: st: outreg2.versionSet error
From
John Luke Gallup <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: outreg2.versionSet error
Date
Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:52:59 -0700
Michael,
The maintainer of -outreg2- does not belong to Statalist, so you should send your request to Roy Wada (email address in the version statement below).
I don't think -outreg2- handles factor variable notation; -outreg- currently does.
John
On Mar 18, 2013, at 4:00 PM, Michael LeGower <[email protected]> wrote:
> There appears to be a flaw in the versionSet program within the outreg2
> package as installed by a -ssc install outreg2- command. In the copy I
> have, any Stata version greater than 8.2 it treats as version 8.2, which
> it then passes back to the estimation command (if using the -outreg2
> <contents> : <estimation command>- syntax). This seems to conflict with
> estimation commands that use factor variable notation.
>
> Here is an example using the 1978 Automobile reference dataset under Stata
> 12.1.
>
> which outreg2
> *c:\ado\plus\o\outreg2.ado
> *! outreg2 2.2.4 12apr2010 [email protected]
> *! based on outreg 3.0.6/4.0.0 [email protected]
>
> sysuse auto
>
> * Syntax 1: Regression with factor variables; Fine in Stata 12, even when
> followed with an -outreg2- command separately
>
> regress price i.foreign
> outreg2 using test1
>
> * Syntax 2: -outreg2- prefix before same command; error results
>
> outreg2 using test2: regress price i.foreign
>
> * Syntax 3: -outreg2- prefix before same command with -xi- prefix; Fine
>
> outreg2 using test2: xi: regress price i.foreign
>
> * Syntax 3b: outreg2 prefix before command with -xi- prefix AND factor
> variable interaction; error
>
> outreg2 using test2: xi: regress price i.foreign#i.rep78
>
> With the stock -outreg2- command as installed from SSC, the second syntax
> fails and the first and third run fine. Adding an interaction term makes
> even the third syntax fail, however. If the SSC -outreg2- package could
> be updated so that commands 2 and 3b did not produce an error, that would
> be tremendous. Otherwise, this is to let people know that an -xi- will be
> required if using the -outreg2- prefix before an estimation command with
> factor variable notation, and models with factor variable interactions
> will require you to run the -outreg2- command post estimation.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michael LeGower
>
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