Thank you so much! I will try a dictionary.
On Saturday, July 9, 2016 at 12:54:07 PM UTC-4, Isaiah wrote:
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> Technically you *can* do the following:
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> @eval $(Symbol("logit_", outcomes[i], "_unadjusted")) = [... fix the RHS
> too]
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> But IMHO programming like this is kind of discouraged. (for one thing,
> undisciplined use can lead to big speed traps). An alternative is to hold a
> string-addressable handle to results in a dictionary or a DataFrame.
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> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Min-Woong Sohn <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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>> I am trying to run logistic regressions on a bunch of dependent variables
>> like so:
>>
>> using GLM
>>
>> outcomes = [:mort30d, :readmit, :reoper, :sar]
>>
>> for i in 1:length(outcomes)
>> logit_$(outcomes[i])_unadjusted = glm($(outcomes[i]) ~ race, puf,
>> Binomial(),LogitLink())
>> dump(coef(logit_$(outcomes[i])_unadjusted))
>> end
>>
>> Here I want to run the logistic regression four times, once for each
>> outcome, and save the return values into four different memory objects:
>>
>> logit_mort30d_unadjusted
>> logit_readmit_unadjusted
>> etc
>>
>> The glm... part works fine with the interpolation, $(outcomes[i]), but I
>> cannot create the memory objects in this way. Is there any way I can use
>> some method of string interpolation to this end?
>>
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