Hi stata folks and happy new year.
I have two questions:
1. How to design a framework (possibly through a dialog box - though I am
totally novice to dialogs - ) to make simulations, after a regression?
What I have in mind is something like:
regress yvar xvar1 xvar2
predict yhat1
Now allow user to make simulations:
- replace xvar1 or xvar2 or both by some values
predict yhat2.
I am trying to do that with VB under excel (using streg results), but not only
it is boring, I am sure it is doable in stata.
2. More generally, how to design an interractive program in stata (in the sense
that during the course of the program, it receives inputs - arguments-
from the user and implement results). Something like the cin/cout commands in
C++. Again possibly through a dialog box (such as a box to compute the square
root of a number). But it can also be a stand alone program. Something like:
myprogram // in the stata command line
enter a value // stata prompts a request
5 // user enters value
2.236068 // stata outputs an answer
enter a new value or type "exit" to exit // stata prompts a new request
...
exit // end session
Again, I think I have to invest a lot in dialog programming, but I want to know
if definitely, this is doable in stata (especially my first question).
Best regards.
Amadou.
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