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Re: st: Problems with:"drawnorm "$varlist"_1, mean(b1) cov(V1)
From
Daniele Pacifico <[email protected]>
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[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Problems with:"drawnorm "$varlist"_1, mean(b1) cov(V1)
Date
Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:28:30 +0000 (GMT)
Thanks, Stan
this is exactly what I have been struggling with!
Best,
Daniele
----- Original Message ----
From: Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 9 September, 2010 17:13:02
Subject: Re: st: Problems with:"drawnorm "$varlist"_1, mean(b1) cov(V1)
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Daniele Pacifico
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I have a problem with the following loop:
global varlist "x y z"
forvalues c=1/5{
local thislist
tokenize $varlist
while "`1'" != "" {
local thislist `thislist' `1'_`c'
macro shift
}
drawnorm `thislist', mean(b`c') cov(V`c')
}
I hope the new variables come out in the right order... if not, you'd
have to be more explicit with something like
forvalues k=1/`: word count $varlist' {
local thislist `thislist' `: word `k' of $varlist'
}
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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