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Re: st: using multiple variable lists in ancova


From   "Joseph Coveney" <[email protected]>
To   "Statalist" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: using multiple variable lists in ancova
Date   Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:19:04 +0900

Cathy L. Antonakos wrote:

This question relates to the use of multiple variable lists (parallel
lists).

I have a dataset with many physiologic measures collected at two time
points.
There are three grouping variables (gp1, gp2, gp3).

[redacted]

I can use -foreach- to call each group variable separately, saving some
time, as follows:

   local gp "gp1 gp2 gp3"

   foreach var of varlist `gp' {
     anova bt at `var'
     anova btx atx `var'
     anova btz atz `var'
   }

But I'd like to figure out a way to call the lists of variables to reduce
the number of anova commands, something like:

   anova `var2' `var1' `gp', cont(`var1')

Is there a way to do that?

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You mention parallel lists at first, but what you ask for looks more
like nested loops.  You can loop over pretest-posttest variables and
grouping variables in a nested structure as follows:

foreach response of varlist b* {
   local baseline = subinstr("`response'", "b", "a", 1)
   foreach groupvar of varlist gp* {
       anova `response' `baseline' `groupvar', continuous(`baseline')
   }
}

This assumes that all variables in your dataset beginning with "b" are
response variables with a corresponding baseline that is named identically
with the exception of the first letter, which is "a".  Note that there's
also a macro extended function for the string substitution.  -help
extended_fcn- and scroll down to the section titled, "Macro extended
functions for parsing".

For parallel lists, see the FAQ "How do I process parallel lists?" at
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/parallel.html .

Joseph Coveney

P.S. I assume that you're aware of Roger Newson's -smileplot-
and -multproc-. -findit smileplot- if not.

P.P.S. You might be able to gain some efficiency with -sureg-.


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