Re: st: Re lincom not recognising macros

[Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>]

There are no macros (marcos, macors) here.

What you may be seeking is

local var1_prop =  0.46
local var2_prop = 0.54

lincom _b[_cons] + _b[indep1]*`var1_prop' + _b[indepvar2]*`var2_prop'

although I don't see why you would prefer that to your direct
solution, which as you say does work.

Nick

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Jennifer Dent <JDent@sgul.ac.uk> wrote:

> I'm trying to run lincom in stata 12 but I am having trouble when I use a
> marco name, rather than a number.
>
> This is what I have:
>
> gen var1_prop =  0.46
> gen var2_prop = 0.54
> xi:xtmixed depvar indep1 indep2 || randomeffect
> lincom _b[_cons] + _b[indep1]*var1_prop + _b[indepvar2]*var2_prop
>
> Error: var1_prop not found
>
> If I replace var1_prop and var2_prop with the actual numbers (i.e. lincom
> _b[_cons] + _b[indep1]*0.46 + _b[indepvar2]*0.54), then stata is happy. Is
> there a way to force lincom to recognise my numeric macors by name, rather
> than to have to find and replace the names with numbers?
>

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