In general, I think it is usually best in
such circumstances to contact authors of
user-written programs directly. I am copying this to them
just in case they are not currently members
of Statalist.
Emailing Statalist directly would,
conversely, be a sensible thing to
do when it appears that the authors
have passed away or disappeared;
or if you attempt to contact the authors
and get no response.
In this particular case, as the original
program appeared in the SJ and I think
Renzo has identified a bug, I shall
approach the authors directly myself
to discuss publication of a fix as a
Software Update in a future issue of
the Journal.
Nick
[email protected]
Renzo Comolli
> After installing -movestay- you can use -mspredict- to form predicted
> values.
> There is an issue with -mspredict- though when the list of
> regressors is
> very long.
> I believe the issue is with the following line
> . local param = "`e(ivar_prob)' 1"
> I think the equal sign is what gives the problem. Possibly
> taking away the equal sign solves all the problems (but I wait for
> confirmation on this).
>
> If you want to see the issue do the following
>
> . use
> http://www.worldbank.org/research/projects/poverty/programs/mo
vestay_example
, clear
. drawnorm variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5 variable6 //
the only reason for this line is to make a dataset that is big enough go
beyond the maximum character of the local
. movestay lmo_wage age age2 edu13 edu4 edu5 reg2 reg3 reg4, select(private
=m_s1 job_hold variable1 variable2 variable3 variable4 variable5 variable6)
. mspredict newvar, xb1
You should get the error message "variabl ambiguous abbreviation".
In a previous posting on -movestay-, Nick Cox suggested that the authors of
-movestay- may not be Statalist members. In general what is the best course
of action? Email Statalist or email the authors directly? Or both?
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