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Re: st: question about defining a local
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Daifeng He <[email protected]>
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Re: st: question about defining a local
Date
Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:52:16 -0500
Figured it out myself. I need to have a compound quote because what's
in my local has already double quotes. So this works:
local state & st=="CA"
di `"`state'"'
Thanks for all.
Daifeng
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Daifeng He <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> This is driving me nuts, but I just cannot see what's going wrong with
> my simple code. Basically, I am defining a local to do sample
> restriction so that I can quicky switch from one sample restriction to
> another in my regressions. Can anyboday tell me why my code below is
> wrong?
>
> . local state & st=="CA"
>
> . di "`state'"
> & st==CA"" invalid name
> r(198);
>
>
> But then this local is valid when I put it in a regression! (But I
> cannot use this local as an argument in a sub-program which is called
> by the main program. I am running many repeated sets of regressions so
> it's much easier to put the set of regressions into a sub-program and
> call the sub-program. The error message similar to the above. )
>
> . xtreg `depvar' `indepvar' `ctr' i.year i.qtr if keep6_all==1
> `inrange' & capped==0 `state' , i(id) fe
>
> Fixed-effects (within) regression Number of obs = 173493
> Group variable: id Number of groups = 7025
>
> R-sq: within = 0.0757 Obs per group: min = 13
> between = 0.7942 avg = 24.7
> overall = 0.7349 max = 25
>
> F(15,166453) = 909.48
> corr(u_i, Xb) = 0.7029 Prob > F = 0.0000
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> cenmcaid | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> qmavgz_post | .729194 .2207647 3.30 0.001 .2964999 1.161888
> qmavgz | -1.728832 .1877174 -9.21 0.000 -2.096754 -1.36091
> govt | 1.379419 .5905301 2.34 0.019 .2219923 2.536845
> nfprofit | .5900255 .2484427 2.37 0.018 .1030833 1.076968
> llc | -22.47875 12.24045 -1.84 0.066 -46.46976 1.512259
> lbeds | .3015509 .0027418 109.98 0.000 .2961771 .3069247
>
> (the rest of results supressed)
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Daifeng
>
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