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Re: st: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using anyparentheses


From   Joseph McCrary <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using anyparentheses
Date   Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:45:50 -0500

Thank you Jeph and Nick. Jeph hit the problem. It works fine when I run histogram on a variable with balanced parentheses in the label (or no parentheses).

It seems strange to me that what is in the label would make a difference in being able to do the plot.

Jeph Herrin wrote:

Could it be related to the unbalanced "[" in the variable label?

Just a thought.

Joe McCrary wrote:
I get a strange error message on a histogram command using Stata 9.2
on Windows X64:

. histogram mc2t0405
(bin=20, start=44.09, width=2.7955)
parentheses unbalanced
r(132);

However, I have no problem summarizing the same variable.

. summarize  mc2t0405, detail

      math % meeting and exceeding standards for all
             students [overall district standa
-------------------------------------------------------------
     Percentiles      Smallest
1%        58.28          44.09
5%        65.81          53.72
10%        71.25          54.31       Obs                 436
25%       81.455          55.38       Sum of Wgt.         436

50%        89.87                      Mean           87.22103
                       Largest       Std. Dev.      10.67012
75%        95.58            100
90%        98.76            100       Variance       113.8515
95%        99.88            100       Skewness      -1.049067
99%          100            100       Kurtosis       3.645815

Has anyone seen this? It's happening for any variable I try to run a
histogram on.
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