You don't mention the name of the program -- that would greatly help in
identifying it.
Even the best programmers make minor mistakes. In concentrating on the
really hard parts of an algorithm a more trivial line of code can be overlooked.
Joe Hilbe
Dear Statalisters,
I have been trying off and on for about a month now to get an
(user-written) ado file to work without error. It is the only command, to my
knowledge, that will do what I need. I'm getting exceedingly frustrated as
my
programming skills are not sufficient to fix what are probably elementary
issues. First I was getting an error mentioned in a previous request to
Statalist - that the post command had been moved from estimates to ereturn-.
With your (Statalisters) help, I came to realize that a command had been
edited
with the change in Stata version, from 7 to 8. I have recently tried to
edit
this ado file to either change the version or change the command from
-estimates- to -ereturn- (this was another question of Statalisters), only
to be
told that either it has a problem implementing the program with the original
dataset (????) or that 'resid1' had already been defined. In looking at the
program in WordPad resid1 is never mentioned!!!! -Predict resid- is
mentioned
several times but I don't know enough about coding to know if this is an
issue.
I know that if you attempt to -generate- or -predict- a variable that is
already
defined, Stata will give you an error like this but I find it hard to believe
that a person that could author such a code would make such a trivial
mistake.
Oh, and I have tried to locate this author - to no avail. So....I'm
desperately
hoping that someone out there that is programming savvy will take pity on me
and
take a look to try to help me resolve these issues. Anyone willing to help
can
e-mail me at [email protected] or [email protected]. I'll send you
the
file, or I can post the text in an e-mail for you - whichever you prefer.
Thanks much, in advance. Have a great weekend everyone.
April M. Knill
Consultant, Finance Research Group
The World Bank Group
Mail Stop MC3-300
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433
202.458.8699
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