Re: st: program to calculate specific percentiles

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

At 10:08 AM 7/19/2006, n j cox wrote:
> Dirk Nachbar sent the following program (wrapped up in mailjunk, 
> despite both public and private requests sent previously not to do this):
>
> 1. Using -set trace on- would show you where there was a problem.
Good list by Nick.  I'll add that when I ran the program, I got 
error(197) which means there is an error in the syntax statement 
itself.  -set trace on- (perhaps accompanied by a -set tracedepth- 
command) is good advice for any such problem.  If going to the list 
it also helps to provide a specific example, e.g. use the auto data. 
At least give the exact error message - error(197) is far more 
informative than error(198).


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