Re: st: Difference of means and t-test

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 04:40 PM 7/2/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> Dear Stata users,
>
> I am trying to compare the differences in means on a list of variables
> between participant and comparison group. After obtaining the difference
> for each variable, I want to run a t-test and test for significance.

You should look up the -foreach command

foreach var of varlist a b c d etc{
    ttest `var', by(group)
}


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