st: outreg adds minus symbol to se's

[Wouter van Gils <w.vangils@maw.ru.nl>]

Hi,

I'm a newby in using Stata, but like it very much. A few days ago I 
tried the outreg package to export my results to Excel. The export of 
coefficients works fine, but the standard errors turn negative when I 
use the 'coefastr' option. (The coefastr tag marks the coefficients with 
significance levels instead of the se's or t-values.)

For instance:

regress ZMINCULT VAGE VEDUC ZHHINC
outreg using C:\temp\zmincult2.xls, bdec(2) se nolabel replace

results in:

VAGE	0.03
	(0.00)**
VEDUC	0.11
	(0.01)**
ZHHINC	0.18
	(0.02)**
Const	-2.36
	(0.10)**

while,

regress ZMINCULT VAGE VEDUC ZHHINC
outreg using C:\temp\zmincult2.xls, bdec(2) se nolabel coefastr replace

results in:

VAGE	0.03**
	0.00
VEDUC	0.11**
	-0.01
ZHHINC	0.18**
	-0.02
Const	-2.36**
	-0.1


The SE for VEDUC and the Constant turned negative. The same applies when 
I use t-values below the coefficients. This does not happen when I 
choose a regular *.out file or an *.doc output, it only happens when I 
choose *.xls export. Is this a bug in the outreg package? Can anyone 
recreate this error on another machine?

Thx in advance,

Wouter van Gils


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Wouter van Gils
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