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Re: st: stcox error when run inside a loop
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[email protected] (Brendan Halpin)
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Re: st: stcox error when run inside a loop
Date
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:28:19 +0000
On Wed, Dec 28 2011, Shubhabrata Mukherjee wrote:
> 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))
> }
>
Try something like this:
foreach var of varlist temp1-temp20 {
capture stcox `var' `gender age
if !_rc {
post `out' ("`var'") (_b[`var']) (_se[`var']) ("a") (e(converged))
}
else {
post `out' ("`var'") (.) (.) ("a") (e(converged))
}
Brendan
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