Print conditional statement

[Gautam Sethi]

I wrote this code to get Stata to print a conditional statement:

if p_value < alpha ///
         {
          di "Reject null"
         }
else     {
          di "Do not reject null"
         }

but it prints this:



Is there a way to get Stata to run this "quietly" so that the only output on the screen is either "Reject null" or "Do not reject null"?

[Scott Merryman]

You can use -qui- & -noisily-:

qui {
clear 
set obs 1
gen alpha = 1
gen p_value = 10
if p_value < alpha ///
         {
          noisily: di "Reject null"
         }
else     {
         noisily: di "Do not reject null"
         }
}

[Gautam Sethi]

You can use -qui- & -noisily-:

qui {
clear
set obs 1
gen alpha = 1
gen p_value = 10
if p_value < alpha ///
{
noisily: di "Reject null"
}
else {
noisily: di "Do not reject null"
}
}

Thank you, Scott!

[Nick Cox]

Other technique that may or may not be useful:

. local foo 42

. di cond(`foo' > 7, "it's big", "it's small")
it's big

. local foo 2.781828

. di cond(`foo' > 7, "it's big", "it's small")
it's small

.