st: stcox error when run inside a loop

[Shubhabrata Mukherjee <joy_stat@yahoo.com>]

Hello,

I am running stcox in a loop and can't seem to suppress the following error:


For some variables (temp1-temp20) in the varlist, Stata is erroring out because the ML estimation didn't converge for one or more variables. I thought 'capture stcox' takes care of this but it seems when it fails to converge it has nothing to post and that's the reason for the error.

. ** Cox regression for each variable
. foreach var of varlist temp1-temp20 {
          capture stcox `var' `gender age
          post `out' ("`var'") (_b[`var']) (_se[`var'])  ("a") (e(converged)) 
  }
no variables defined
post:  above message corresponds to expression 2, variable beta
r(111);


Is there a way to print missing values or 'NA'/'NaN' when it fails to convergeso that the code doesn't stop midway?

I used a subset and saw that it's failing to converge for some variables and a normal stcox run for thoses variables gives the following error:

flat region resulting in a missing likelihood
r(430);

Thanks again,

-Joey


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