Fred - Your example had the -if- qualifier !min(b_*) . What does it
mean?
Thanks
Al F.
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 5:55 PM
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Subject: st: Stata functions
Apropos of the recent discussion of inlist, I have often wondered why
Stata doesn't allow varlists in functions, but instead requires comma
separated lists. For example,
missing(,a,b,c,d,...) is required. Why not a varlist? I can't quite see
any difference. However, in terms of programming, a varlist is much
easier.
reg y a b c if !min(b_*)
is much easier than typing each of the 10 b_ variables which may be long
and easy to misspell.
Fred
Fred Wolfe
National Data Bank for Rheumatic Diseases Wichita, Kansas
Tel (316) 263-2125 Fax (316) 263-0761
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