st: how to generate many dofiles in a program?

["Hauck, Katharina D" <k.hauck@imperial.ac.uk>]

Dear STATA community,

 
I want to generate 300 STATA do-files in a program, varying two macros for
each of the separate do-files.  There is a thread on that issue, and
apparently the file write command can be used to created STATA do-files in
a program, but it is not clear to me how exactly to do that.
 
As background: I need to run a very computationally intensive job on a
high performance computer in parallel. I run a regression repeatedly with
varying combinations of regressors, and save the results. I want to split
the job in 300 separate batches, and per batch, I want to run 1000
regressions.  In need to vary for each do-file the set of regressors (I
use the tuples ado from Nick Cox).  Our HPC does not accept the user
written parallel programming ado, so I need to farm this out myself, and I
see no other solution but to create 300 do-files from one master do-file,
changing the range of tuples to be estimated in each of the 300 files.
 
 

Thanks!
 

Katharina.



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Katharina Hauck
Centre for Health Policy
Imperial College Business School
London, United Kingdom
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/k.hauck
Phone:	+44 (0)20 7594 9197
Skype:	katharinadianahauck


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