Re: st: Recovery of name of dependent variable after estimation

["Brian P. Poi" <bpoi@stata.com>]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Schaffer, Mark E wrote:

> Hi everybody.  I'm writing a routine that needs the name of the
> dependent variable used in the preceding estimation.
>
> Unfortunately, the command, -ivprobit-, doesn't save the name in the
> macro e(depvar) when it is called with the -twostep- option.  FYI, the
> version I am using is
>
> C:\Stata9\ado\updates\i\ivprobit.ado
> *! version 1.1.8  14jul2006
>
> The name of the dependent variable is stored in Stata somewhere, because
> -estimates display- can get at it and it appears in the output of
> -ivprobit-.  But I can't work out how my code can get at it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
This is a bug in -ivprobit- that will be fixed in the next adofile update. 
e(depvar) should be set regardless of whether the "twostep" option was 
specified.

   -- Brian Poi
   -- bpoi@stata.com


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