Stata Varlist. On sat jun 14 2008 at 11 05 am martin weiss martin weiss uni tuebingen de wrote. This is called a macro expression and is egen is user extendable.
See u 11 4 varlistsfor a complete description. A varlist just a list of variables separated by white space. Technically you can t create and stor a varlist.
The scope of a local definition is as small as one statement if that one statement is run by itself by a file.
In commands that alter or destroy data stata requires that the varlist be speciļ¬ed explicitly. Quick start shapiro wilk test of normality. When the names are in common the variables are numbered sequentially but they are not stored sequentially. When that happens local macros defined in one statement are not visible to another statement.
