Thanks a lot for pointing it out Nick. It helped.
Nothing to report to Statacorp. Forgive my slow learning of Stata
still on a steep curve ( I could just not figure out of the list of
extended function that "list" was the command to use. )
Nirina
On 9/19/07, n j cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> First, I assume that that "until" is not to be taken
> literally and that all your globals contain lists
> of variable names (which don't need expansion).
>
> Then what you want is I think
>
> foreach i of local out {
> local x : list xvars - i
> reg `i' `x'
> }
>
> Note incidentally that, although it was not part
> of your question,
>
> foreach i in out
>
> is quite wrong for what you want.
>
> Both this point and the answer to your question are
> spelled out in the help, so perhaps you should indicate
> to StataCorp what is unclear in their documentation.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
>
> Nirina F
>
> I tried to see but still couldn't figure out.
> so you mean there is an option command for me to tell xvars to not
> include i ?
>
> Austin Nichols
>
> > see -help macrolists- (linked from -help extended_fcn- which is linked
> > from -help macro-).
>
> Nirina F
>
> > > I have:
> > >
> > > global x "x1 until x8"
> > > global y "y1 until y15"
> > > global z "z1 until z3"
> > > global w "w1 until w24"
> > > global k "k1 until k9"
> > >
> > > local xvars "$x $y $z $w $k"
> > > local out "x1 y1 z1 w1 k1 x7 y13 z3 k4 w20"
> > >
> > > I would like to do
> > >
> > > foreach i in out {
> > > reg `i' `xvars'
> > > }
> > >
> > > but now I would have depedent variable collinear with one of control
> > > variable. So how could I run the reg but telling my controls `xvars'
> > > to not include what is taken by `i' ?
>
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