RE: st: Naming equations when using the ml command

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 04:15 PM 3/30/2005 -0600, Jun Xu wrote:
> Miss the second part. For value lables, you can try Scott Long's _pecats 
> and get returns from  it. It really depends. If you have fixed number of 
> equation, then you can set up loops like
>
> _pecats yourvar
> loc catvals = "r(catvals)"
> loc j = r(numcats)
> forval i = 1/`j' {
>  loc val`i': word `i' of `catvals'
> }
>
> Then you can grab those val`i' for your equation names. If you don't have 
> fixed number of equations, then you need to again set up some kind of 
> loops. Not sure if this is what you meant to accomplish.
Incidentally, I am finding that this may be more trouble than it is 
worth.  mlogit seems to be able to handle just about any value label and 
using it as the equation name.  But, I am finding that I have trouble with 
value labels that contain spaces or commas, and value labels that get used 
more than once, and probably various other quirks I haven't tested yet. 
Just leaving the equation names as eq1, eq2, etc. is starting to look more 
attractive. 
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