Re: st: Fwd: Retrieving macros defined inside for loop

[Fernando Rios Avila <f.rios.a@gmail.com>]

Hi Laura,
As far as i know, one of the advantages/disadvantages of "locals" is
that they only remain in memory while the program is running (Im
assuming you run the loop from a do file.
my suggestion is to store your results on a matrix:
reg y star0 star1 star2 star3 star4 star5 star6 star7 x1 x2 x3


forval i = 0/6 {
local j = `i'+1
lincom star`j' - star`i'
matrix  b=nullmat(b),[r(estimate),r(se)]
}
matrix list b

Hope This helps.
Fernando

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:43 PM, Laura Grant <contributary@gmail.com> wrote:
> Simple question. I want to retrieve macros once outside the loop that
> are defined inside the loop.
>
> I do -regress- , then I have a loop to perform -lincom- t-tests
> comparing stored coefs
>
> reg y star0 star1 star2 star3 star4 star5 star6 star7 x1 x2 x3
>
>
> forval i = 0/6 {
> local j = `i'+1
> lincom star`j' - star`i'
> local c_`j'= r(estimate)
> local se_`j'=r(se)
>         display `c_1'
>
> }
>
> -display- works inside the loop but I cannot retrieve the c_j's and
> se_j's outside the loop. And I would like to output them to a
> table/text.
>
> Thanks for your help, Laura
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