Re: st: matrix colnames manipulation

[Maarten Buis <maartenlbuis@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM,  <S.Jenkins@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
> I want to use estimates derived using -xtprobit- as starting values for
> estimation using -gllamm, family(binomial) link(probit)
> from(mat_start)-. (-gllamm- is on SSC.)  To use the "from" option, I
> want to manipulate the full column names of the e(b) matrix produced by
> -xtprobit-. The issue is that -gllamm- labels the column corresponding
> to the variance of the random effect differently to -xtprobit-. So,
> specifically, how, within a long list of colnames stored with a macro,
> does one change the final name?

What about the following solution:

*---------------------- begin example ------------------------
local coln `"bu_SA:Lfemale bu_SA:Ledq_low lnsig2u:_cons"'
local coln : subinstr local coln "lnsig2u:_cons" "pid1:_cons"
di "`coln'"
*----------------------- end example -------------------------
(For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
 http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Universitaet Tuebingen
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