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RE: st: Programming Stata


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: Programming Stata
Date   Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:17:17 +0100

In addition to Neil's comments, 

1. There is no obvious gain from writing this as a program. 
You might as well just run these commands in a do-file. Of course, this may be under development. 

2. The line 

xtprobit expdum 'x', re

will not work as the same character ' is used for both delimiters. You need

xtprobit expdum `x', re

Nick 
[email protected] 

Neil Shephard

If you are going to write it as a program then you should save it as
[filename].ado (not [filename].do as you are implying) and place it in
one of your systems -adopath-'s (to see what these are simply type
-adopath- in Stata.

See [U] 16-18 for greater details on "Do-Files" (Chapter 16)
"Ado-Files (Chapter 17) and "Programming Stata (Chapter 18).

On 16 August 2011 13:41, natasha agarwal <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to write and run a program in Stata. The program I define
> is as follows and I save it in the do-file
>
> capture program drop fdi
> program fdi, rclass
> local x " lnvfdi mfdi"
> xtprobit expdum 'x', re
> gen double x1b1hat, xb
> gen double scale = normalden(x1bhat1)
> gen double pe1=scale*_b[lnvfdi]
> summarize pe1, meanonly
> return scalar ape1=r(mean)
> drop x1b1hat scale pe1
> end
>
> When I type fdi, I get an error invalid file name.
>
> Can anyone please help me?


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