Re: st: Postfile question

["Kelvin Foo" <kelvinski@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Will your problem be solved if you had
post `sim' ("`var'") (chitest)
instead of
post `sim' (`var') (chitest)  ?

Kelvin.

On 2/28/07, Poon, Kwun Yee <poonk@anesthesia.ucsf.edu> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I have a question on postfile syntax.  Using the following syntax, I was
> expecting vari_name to store var1, var2, etc.  However, when I open the
> result.dta, the values stored in vari_name is the values stores in var1,
> etc.
>
> Can someone help me solve this mystery?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Trudy
>
> *****syntax********
>
> set more off
> tempname sim
> postfile `sim' str15 vari_name chistat using result, replace
> use "inputdata.dta", replace
>
> quietly {
>    foreach var of varlist var1-var10 {
>    *Crosstab
>      capture tabul gender `var', chi2
>      scalar chitest = r(chi2)
>    *Writing to external file
>      post `sim' (`var') (chitest)
>     scalar drop _all
>    }
>   }
> postclose `sim'
> clear
>
>
>
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