Nice. Doesn't really eliminate the middle man, but could
be useful in some contexts.
thanks,
J
Kit Baum wrote:
<.>
Ben Jann is quite correct in noting that my solution might lose
precision. It would indeed be better (and a simpler solution) to use a
Stata scalar in the first place:
. mata:st_numscalar("besser",st_matrix("e(b)")[1,1])
. di besser
-.32384535
. di %20.16f besser
-0.3238453484509378
Kit
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An Introduction to Modern Econometrics Using Stata |
http://www.stata-press.com/books/imeus.html
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