programming syntax problem [was: Re: st: From: "Christopher L. Aberson" ...]

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

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Try editing out the spaces between option names and option details in
the cases of the options

ry1 (real) ry2 (real) r12 (real) sy (real 1)   s1 (real 1) s2 (real 1)
s3 (real 1)

Incidentally, your program does nothing with the options

alpha(real .05) help

although you may be planning to add details later.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 14 June 2013 23:18,  <owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> wrote:
> I've written a tiny program for simulation of multiple regression
> results.  I can run this on a line by line basis (using actual values
> instead of the syntax command), but when I put it in an ado, it
> doesn't work.
>
> The basic idea is use drawnorm to generate a dataset, run regression
> on it, then do it over and over using the simulate option.
>
>
> program define powersim3, rclass
> syntax, ry1 (real) ry2 (real) r12 (real) [my(real 0) m1(real 0)
> m2(real 0) m3(real 0)] [sy (real 1) ///
>     s1 (real 1) s2 (real 1) s3 (real 1)] n(real) [alpha(real .05) help ]
> matrix m = (`my', `m1', `m2')
> matrix sd = (`sy', `s1', `s2')
> matrix r = (1, `ry1', `ry2'\ `ry1' , 1 , `r12'\ `ry2' , `r12', 1)
> drawnorm y x1 x2, n(`n') corr(r) means(m) sds(sd)
> regress y x1 x2
> end
>
> simulate _b _se, reps(10000): powersim3
>
> .powersim3, ry1(.30) ry2(.30) r12 (.30) n (282)
>
> This yields an error saying "ry1" required. If I take out the simulate
> command I get a single regression but not the repeated
> sampling/simulation I want.
>
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