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[Wu Zhang <wuzhang50@yahoo.com>]

Hi folks,
 
   I encounter this error message : invalid syntax r(198);
My guess is that 'tabstat' with option 'save' does not work since the matrix xstat is null, but I cannot fix it; any thoughts? thanks!


  My code is as follows:

program ape_total, rclass
      version 8
      syntax varlist(numeric)
      gettoken y x : varlist  /*nice way to split y and x! from Maarten*/
      
    
     
      tabstat `x', statistics( mean p25 p50 p75 p95 ) save   /*'sum' does not work here!*/
      
      mat xstat=r(StatTotal)
      scalar n=rowsof(xstat)
      scalar m=colsof(xstat)
      regress `varlist'
      predict ehat, residual
      mat paraest=e(b)
      
      
     
      forvalues i=1(1)n {
           mat meanvalue=(xstat[i, 1...],1)*paraest'
           scalar meanvalues=meanvalue[1,1]
        forvalues j=1(1)m{     
           scalar alpha`j'=paraest[1,j]
           gen apet`i'`j'=alpha`j'*exp(meanvalues+ehat)/(1+exp(meanvalues+ehat))^2
           sum apet`i'`j'
           return scalar ape`i'`j'=r(mean)
           
     
      }
      }
     
      drop apet* ehat 
      
end

Wu


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