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From | Phil Clayton <philclayton@internode.on.net> |
To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
Subject | Re: st: Re: using categorical and continuous variables foreach loop for univaraite analysis |
Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2013 09:47:04 +1000 |
One simple solution is a slight tweak to your -foreach- syntax: foreach x in i.cat1 i.cat2 i.cat3 i.cat4 con1 con2 con3 con4 { logit outcome `x' } Phil On 09/07/2013, at 8:51 AM, Michael Stewart <michaelstewartresearch@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > In my research project, I have a number of categorical predictors(cat1 > cat2 cat3 cat4 ) and continuous predictors(con1 con2 con3 con4) and > during initial uni-variate analysis, I am using two step process to > evaluate for statistical significance.My code is a follows > > I use stata 12 > > *********************MY CODE ******************** > foreach x of varlist cat1 cat2 cat3 cat4{ > logit outcome i.`x' > } > > foreach x of varlist con1 con2 con3 con4{ > logit outcome `x' > } > ******************************************************** > Question: > > Is it possible to achieve this is one step i.e., use continuous and > predictors as a single varlist but perform logistic regression still > respecting the fact that some are categorical variables and some are > continuous variables > > -- > Thank you in advance for your time and consideration, > Yours Sincerely, > Mike. > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/