Joe,
Try ssc describe a
Then to install allpossible, type:
ssc install allpossible
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----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph Coveney <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:48 pm
Subject: Re: RE: st: Regression: All possible subsets
> Raphael Fraser wrote:
>
> tryem has no help file. I threw some variables at it and it froze.
> Nick?? Are you there?
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
>
> Hmmm . . . -findit- doesn't bring up either -tryem- or -allpossible-.
>
> -tryem- is an older module by Al Feiveson; -allpossible- is the one
> by Nick
> Cox. -tryem- does linear regression. -allpossible- is more general.
>
> In any event, there is a help file for -tryem- on my machine
> (printed out
> below after the example of its use). I'm not sure why it's not
> there on SSC
> anymore. The help file mentions that you'll need to have
> installed -mktime-.
>
> Joseph Coveney
>
> . clear
>
> . set more off
>
> . set obs 7
> obs was 0, now 7
>
> . forvalues i = 1/7 {
> 2. generate float a`i' = 0.5 + 0.5 * (`i' == _n)
> 3. }
>
> . mkmat a*, matrix(A)
>
> . drawnorm y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6, corr(A) n(25) seed(`=date("2006-11-
> 26","ymd")') clear
> (obs 25)
>
> . forvalues i = 5(-1)1 {
> 2. tryem y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 `i'
> 3. }
> n = 6
> var = y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 5
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 1 3 4 5 6
> .300381 best of size 5
> subset is x1 x3 x4 x5 x6
> --------------------------------------------
> n = 6
> var = y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 4
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 1 3 4 6
> .299128 best of size 4
> subset is x1 x3 x4 x6
> --------------------------------------------
> n = 6
> var = y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 3
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 1 4 6
> .296403 best of size 3
> subset is x1 x4 x6
> --------------------------------------------
> n = 6
> var = y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 2
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 1 6
> .291414 best of size 2
> subset is x1 x6
> --------------------------------------------
> n = 6
> var = y x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 1
> --------------------------------------------
>
> 6
> .201019 best of size 1
> subset is x6
> --------------------------------------------
>
> . chelp tryem
>
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> ------------------------------------
>
> Help file for the command tryem
> --------------------------------
>
> Syntax
> ------
>
> tryem var varlist k
>
>
> Options
> -------
>
> Description
> -----------
> 'TRYEM': module to run all possible subset regressions
> tryem calculates all possible regressions of a given subset size.
> The maximum number of subsets, k, is one fewer than the total
> number of
> independent variables.
> The module mktime is required.
>
> tryem finds best regression subset of size k by brute force.
> It assumes independent variables are x1-xn and dependent variable
> is y
> `1' = dep; `2',..`nv+1' are indeps `nv+2'=k
>
>
>
> Examples
> --------
> Example: tryem yyy xvar1 xvar2 xvar3 xvar4 2 finds best 2-subset
> regressionof
> yyy on 4 indep variables xvar1,xvar2,xvar3,xvar4
>
>
> Author(s)
> ---------
>
> Al Feiveson, Johnson Spaceflight Center
> Email: [email protected]
>
> Also see
> --------
>
>
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> .
>
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>
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