Re: st: changing beta coefficients

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

At 10:23 AM 4/11/2005 +0200, Peter Haan wrote:
> dear stata list,
>
> I have the following question:
>
> Is it possibe to change the estimated vector of beta coefficients by hand.
> I want to predict   with a slightly different beta vector than the
> estimated,
> The idea is to replace the estimated vector e(b)  by an artificial e(b*) 
> and then to use the command pred,
> however, as far as I know I cannot change e(b).
Yes you can.  Check out -ereturn repost-.  You might, for example, do 
something like

        tempname bmat
        matrix `bmat' = e(b)
        ...Make changes to `bmat'...
        ereturn repost b = `bmat'



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