Re: st: xtabond problem

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 09:19 AM 7/1/2005 -0400, Rashmi Shankar wrote:
> Hi, all: I use stata se and have set matsize to 1000. I'm running xtabond with
> 6832 rows of quarterly data. Stata just goes into a coma when I try or I get
> an error message that says no room to add more observations.
>
> Is this going to be impossible to do, or is this likely to be a technical
> hitch?
Have you tried increasing the amount of memory used by Stata?  Do you have 
lots of memory in your system?  How big is your data file?

I have some enormous datasets (millions of cases, several dozen 
variables).  When I've done the same analyses in both SPSS and Stata, I've 
found that either (a) Stata is far faster than SPSS, or (b) Stata doesn't 
run it at all because I don't have enough memory. SPSS is slow but sure. 
Increasing memory and/or paring the file size down helps.

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