Marco Grazzi:
Whether you loop inside one do file or loop across do files, I think
you want the -post- command for this task. You can do -eret list-
after a single probit to see what results you might want to save and
then -post- a selection of them to a new dataset for later use.
On Jan 22, 2008 2:10 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with Sergiy's main point. In so far as I understand the problem,
> doing everything in Stata seems by far the simplest approach, regardless
> of OS.
>
> However, -xml_tab- [sic] advertises itself as for MS Windows, so on the
> face of it is not suitable for a Unix user.
>
> Simlarly, -tabout-, despite several excellent features, is not in the
> same game as (e.g.) -outreg2-. Perhaps Sergiy meant to say -estout-.
> Whether that is so, -estout- certainly deserves a mention in this
> company.
>
> I think all extras mentioned are downloadable from SSC.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Sergiy Radyakin
>
>
> I am not sure if batch mode is really necessary here. Why don't you
> loop the data files from within Stata in one do file, and then run
> your processing do file. See help for foreach.
>
> help foreach
>
> -xml_tab- may be a useful command if you want to accumulate the
> estimationg results from multiple estimations.
>
> findit xml_tab
>
> So the loop might look like this
>
> foreach file in this.dta that.dta theother.dta {
> ** open file
> use "`file'"
> ** prepare variables, filter observations, run probit, etc
> do my-processing-do-file.do
> ** collect the results
> xmltab whatever_parameters
> }
>
>
> see also two other similar commands -outreg2- and -tabout-:
>
> findit outreg2
> findit tabout
>
> Marco Grazzi
>
> > I am running a do file in Unix batch mode. I have used the suggestion
> > on the FAQ: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/unix/batch.html
> > The .do file performs 3 simple probit regressions.
> >
> > The stata .do file is run within a 'for' cycle (i.e. it is running
> each
> > time on a different database). At every loop, each time the stata
> > do file is run, I want to store and append the results of these 3
> > regression so that I can perform analysis afterwards (compute average,
> > do some tests, etc). It is my understanding that I would need to
> > perform this within the stata do file (probably with some pipe of
> > strings, shell commands, or similar), but I don't really know how.
>
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