st: SV: RE: SV: RE: postfile

["Tomas Lind" <tomas.lind@ki.se>]

I get the following error message (note, the variable time in my example
corresponds to the variable fönster in my real syntax so the error message
is about the variable fönster)



saba_L6

                                                         -- Binomial Exact
--
    Variable |        Obs        Mean    Std. Err.       [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------------
-
     saba_L6 |       3366    .0356506    .0031959        .0296445
.0424797



invalid syntax
post:  above message corresponds to expression 2, variable fönster
r(198);

end of do-file

r(198);








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[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] För Nick Cox
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Ämne: st: RE: SV: RE: postfile

"in r" is short for "in red", which it seems is no longer documented, but
should be considered equivalent to "as error". 

What doesn't "doesn't work" mean in your new question? 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Tomas Lind

Unfortunately I don´t understand the abrevation -in r- in your example but
when enclosing mpg in "" I display the word "mpg". In my problem the
variable prep is a string variable so I should refer to it with "". Then it
works.

New problem

I would also like to post the value of the time-window i (6, 12, 18). I
thought that should be simple but the syntax below (and different
modifications of it) doesn´t work. Why?

tempname  resul

postfile `resul'  str15 prep   time   mean lb ub    ///
                using H:\ANAL\prevalens.dta , replace 	
						
foreach i in 6 12 18 {
   foreach X of varlist   saba_L`i'  laba_L`i'  {

    preserve
    bysort idnr (`X') : keep if _n==_N    
    di " "
    di " "
    di "`X'"  					
	ci `X' , binomial    
	local  prep `X'
	local  time `i'
	local  mean    = r(mean)
	local  lb       = r(lb)		
	local  ub       = r(ub)			
    post `resul'  ("`prep'") (`time') (`mean') (`lb')  (`ub')   
 restore
    }
}	
postclose `resul'	



preserve
use H:\ANAL\prevalens.dta , replace	
list , noobs
restore				

Martin Weiss

The difference between:

*************
sysuse auto, clear
di in r mpg
di in r "mpg"
*************

makes your error clear, I think...

Tomas Lind

Below I try to post results to a dataset. Everything works fine but the
variable prep only contain 0´s. I had hoped to find the variable names
saba_L6, saba_L12, saba_L18, laba_L6, laba_L12, laba_L18 in it.

Anyone know what´s wrong with my syntax?

tempname  resul

postfile `resul'  str15 prep   mean lb ub    ///
                using H:\ANAL\prevalens.dta , replace 	
						
foreach i in 6 12 18 {
   foreach X of varlist   saba_L`i'  laba_L`i'  {

    preserve
    bysort idnr (`X') : keep if _n==_N    
    di " "
    di " "
    di "`X'"  					
	ci `X' , binomial    
	local  prep `X'
	local  mean    = r(mean)
	local  lb       = r(lb)		
	local  ub       = r(ub)			
    post `resul'  (`prep') (`mean') (`lb')  (`ub')   
 restore
    }
}	
postclose `resul'	



preserve
use H:\ANAL\prevalens.dta , replace	
list , noobs
restore				


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