Rob Williams <[email protected]>
> I'm trying to bootstrap an estimation program that generates a very large
> number of coefficients (roughly 1000). I've assembled them into a
> coefficient vector and created a fake variance-covariance matrix (following
> the instructions in Jeff Pitblado's very helpful e-mail to this list on Jan
> 30, 2003). But when I use ereturn post at the end of the estimation
> routine, I get the following error message:
>
> an error occured when preparing postfile
>
> If I only post some of the coefficients, the error goes away. I'm guessing
> that the problem is the size of the coefficient vector and
> variance-covariance matrix. Is there a maximum size (other than the maximum
> matrix size defined using set matsize) for coefficient vectors returned
> using ereturn post? If so, what is that maximum? And is there any way to
> increase it?
I was unable to reproduce the problem, so I sent a private email to Rob to get
more information.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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