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

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

If you look again at the help for -simulate- the main example is a
program with options. The -simulate- call shows that program being
called with arguments for its options.

No option calls are given in your -simulate- call. This seems
especially important as you have required options in -powersim3-. How
is -powersim3- supposed to operate then?

For my part, I don't understand why this basic point is not clear to
you. If this doesn't help, or I in turn am misunderstanding, sorry,
but I end there.

Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com


On 18 June 2013 05:11, Christopher L. Aberson
<Christopher.Aberson@humboldt.edu> wrote:
> Respectfully -- I don't understand what needs to be supplied. That's
> why I've been posting here. No matter how many times you say "look at
> this or that" I'm not going to be able to figure this out on my own.
> That is why I am seeking help.
>
>
>
>>Look again at your line
>>
>>simulate _b _se, reps(100): powersim3
>>
>>-powersim3- has compulsory options but you don't supply them.
>>
>>Nick
>>njcoxstata@gmail.com
>
>
> On 18 June 2013 00:39, Christopher L. Aberson
> <Christopher.Aberson@humboldt.edu> wrote:
>> Not sure I follow you. If I run this without using the single command line
>> approach (i.e., just plug in numbers I want here) the Simulate command is
>> getting fed.
>>
>> clear all
>> program define powersim3
>> drop _all
>> matrix r = (1.0,.30,.30\.30,1.0,.30\.30,.30,1.0)
>> matrix m = (0,0,0)
>> matrix sd = (1,1,1)
>> drawnorm y x1 x2, n(282) corr(r) means(m) sds(sd)
>>
>> regress y x1 x2
>> end
>>
>> simulate _b _se, reps(100): powersim3
>>
>> Yet when I try to execute this using a command line as shown in the previous
>> posts, simulate isn't getting fed.
>>
>> Can you clarify how I can tweak the original code to make this run?
>>
>>
>> <You are using -simulate- to call your -powersim3-, but not feeding it
>> anything.
>> <Nick
>> <njcoxstata@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On 17 June 2013 21:56, Christopher L. Aberson
>> <Christopher.Aberson@humboldt.edu> wrote:
>>> Thank you for the feedback. The approaches suggested made the code
>>> more elegant but did not solve the core issue.
>>>
>>> To recap, I wand to run the code noted below (encased in *****) using
>>> this line powersim3, ry1(.30) ry2(.30) r12 (.30) n (282)
>>> that defines the required characteristics.
>>>
>>> It appears the issue is that the simulate command isn't recognizing
>>> the powersim3 command above. I expect there is a simple solution here
>>> -- but I'm not proficient enough in Stata to know what the simple
>>> answer is. Any additional suggestions would be very helpful.
>>>
>>> ******
>>>  program define powersim3, rclass
>>>  syntax, ry1(real)ry2(real)r12(real)n(
>>> 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)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
>>> *****
>>>
>>>
>>>> Please use meaningful titles for your postings.
>>>>
>>>> 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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