st: Re: appending two variables

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

Why not just use postfile? Stata will then automatically put whatever  
you specify into a new Stata dataset, which can readily be analyzed,  
combined with your original data, whatever you want.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html




> David K Evans wrote:
>
> So I want to run 10,000 iterations of a process, but I'm not using  
> Stata
> SE, so I can't put more than 800 iterations in a given column of a  
> matrix.
>
> The problem is that if I want to do summary statistics, on the  
> different
> estimates, I would normally just use svmat to turn the matrix into a
> variable and then 'summarize' that.
>
> Is there any way to take two variables, say X and Y, and put them end  
> to
> end (ultimately creating a dataset that has 10,000 observations, where
> each observation is an outcome).
>
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> Joseph responded
> I'm not quite sure that I follow you, but you can use a -tempfile- to  
> save
> the first batch, create the second batch, and use -append- to put them
> together end-to-end, -save , replace- back to the temporary file, and
> continue until your iterations are done.  (Illustrated below.)
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