st: bs expression list has a limite on the number of character?

["Jun Xu" <mystata@hotmail.com>]

All Stata experts:

One dumb question about the bs command. I am writing some codes that invoke 
bootstrap in this routine. However, it seems that the number of characters 
in the expression list is limited in the bs command. Not sure if this is the 
case. The following are the results grabbed from the resutls window after I 
run the bs command.
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. bs "mlogit  abortion election religion age marital" 
"(exp([1]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[1]_b[e

> lection]+1.653485254691689*[1]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[1]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[1]_b[
> marital])/(1+exp([1]_b[_cons] 
> +1.857238605898123*[1]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[1]_b[religio
> n]+47.07908847184987*[1]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[1]_b[marital])+exp([2]_b[_cons]+1.85723860589
> 8123*[2]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[2]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[2]_b[age]+2.0187667560
> 32171*[2]_b[marital])+exp([3]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[3]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[3]_b
> [religion]+47.07908847184987*[3]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[3]_b[marital])+exp([6]_b[_cons]+1.857
> 238605898123*[6]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[6]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[6]_b[age]+2.01
> 8766756032171*[6]_b[marital])+exp([7]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[7]_b[election]+1.6534852546916
> 89*[7]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[7]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[7]_b[marital]))), 
> reps(20)
command:      mlogit abortion election religion age marital
statistic:    _bs_1      = 
exp([1]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[1]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[1

> ]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[1]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[1]_b[marital])/(1+exp([1]_b[_cons]
>   
> +1.857238605898123*[1]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[1]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[1]_b[a
> ge]+2.018766756032171*[1]_b[marital])+exp([2]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[2]_b[election]+1.65348
> 5254691689*[2]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[2]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[2]_b[marital])+exp([3
> ]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[3]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[3]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987
> *[3]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[3]_b[marital])+exp([6]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[6]_b[election]
> +1.653485254691689*[6]_b[religion]+47.07908847184987*[6]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[6]_b[marital]
> )+exp([7]_b[_cons]+1.857238605898123*[7]_b[election]+1.653485254691689*[7]_b[religion]+47.079088
> 47184987*[7]_b[age]+2.018766756032171*[7]_b[marital]))
invalid syntax
r(198);
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Thanks a lot.

Jun Xu
Department of Sociology
Indiana University at Bloomington

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