I have three comments:
1. You need to tell us your criterion of "categorical".
2. Your processing is better down upstream than downstream.
3. I don't understand your terminology of string members.
So, in essence, the algorithm should look like
foreach v of var <varlist> {
if <`v' is categorical> {
local V `"`V' "`v' (categorical)""'
}
else local V `"`V' "`v'""'
}
and you should apply this before calling -xi:-.
Nick
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K Jensen
> I am writing an ado file to help with some modelling I'm doing. One of
> the input arguments is a varlist of the independent variables.
>
> I am trying to produce additional "friendly" output to describe the
> model, particularly for variables produced using "xi" from categorical
> data. It is only me using it--so I know that I won't be making dummy
> variables differently--but other people will be looking at the output.
>
> Using the auto data as an example say my varlist was:
> mpg _Irep78_2 _Irep78_3 _Irep78_4 _Irep78_5 length (method always
> involves a constant)
>
> I would like to dereference the varlist to become just a list with
> string members and from it produce the list:
> "mpg" "rep78 (categorical)" "length"
>
> I have tried looping through the varlist and trying various string
> functions on it but am getting nowhere.
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