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Re: st: Fwd: Retrieving macros defined inside for loop
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Laura Grant <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Fwd: Retrieving macros defined inside for loop
Date
Tue, 19 Nov 2013 16:36:00 -0600
That's what I thought was wrong and a great workaround. Thanks
Fernando - nearly perfect, now can I put the output in separate rows
(so that b is [6,2] rather than [1,12] in dimensions)?
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Fernando Rios Avila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
> As far as i know, one of the advantages/disadvantages of "locals" is
> that they only remain in memory while the program is running (Im
> assuming you run the loop from a do file.
> my suggestion is to store your results on a matrix:
> reg y star0 star1 star2 star3 star4 star5 star6 star7 x1 x2 x3
>
>
> forval i = 0/6 {
> local j = `i'+1
> lincom star`j' - star`i'
> matrix b=nullmat(b),[r(estimate),r(se)]
> }
> matrix list b
>
> Hope This helps.
> Fernando
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Laura Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Simple question. I want to retrieve macros once outside the loop that
>> are defined inside the loop.
>>
>> I do -regress- , then I have a loop to perform -lincom- t-tests
>> comparing stored coefs
>>
>> reg y star0 star1 star2 star3 star4 star5 star6 star7 x1 x2 x3
>>
>>
>> forval i = 0/6 {
>> local j = `i'+1
>> lincom star`j' - star`i'
>> local c_`j'= r(estimate)
>> local se_`j'=r(se)
>> display `c_1'
>>
>> }
>>
>> -display- works inside the loop but I cannot retrieve the c_j's and
>> se_j's outside the loop. And I would like to output them to a
>> table/text.
>>
>> Thanks for your help, Laura
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