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Re: st: Inteff Hanging


From   sabrina wang <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Inteff Hanging
Date   Sat, 7 Apr 2007 20:14:40 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks Maarten. 

I have a dataset of more than 8000 records. I will
leave it run over night and see how it goes.

BR,
Sabrina

--- Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:

> --- sabrina wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >    I have installed inteff by "net search inteff".
> > However, whenever I run the inteff after my probit
> > model, it hangs there. No error message. The CPU
> is
> > very busy but nothing comes up. I waited like 20
> > minutes and still no results come up. I have tried
> 
> > this many times and with different model 
> > specifications. But no luck.
> 
> The example below works for me, does it work for
> you?
> 
> *--------- begin example ------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> gen priceXmpg = price * mpg
> probit foreign price mpg priceXmpg
> inteff foreign price mpg priceXmpg
> *----------- end example ------------
> (For more on how to use examples I sent to the
> Statalist, see:
> http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
> 
> Anyhow, a very quick look under the hood of -inteff-
> (using
> -viewsource-) suggests to me that -inteff- loops
> over observations,
> which would make it very slow in large datasets, so
> if your dataset is
> large than it is likely that -inteff- just takes
> very very long (>20
> minutes, maybe much more than 20 minutes) Try
> running it on a small
> random sample of your data, and if that works run it
> overnight.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
> 
> 
> 
> 
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