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Re: st: Error handling in -simulate-


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Error handling in -simulate-
Date   Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:15:17 +0100 (BST)

--- Rachel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Consider a -simulate- command that stipulates R repetitions. Suppose
> that the nth repetition of -simulate- produces an error.  Is there
> any way to make Stata simply run that repetition again?  If that's
> not possible, is there a way to make Stata continue on to the next
> repetition so that the the resulting dataset produces R-1
> observations (instead of the intended R)?

You can put a -capture- at strategic locations inside the program that
you are feeding -simulate-. You'll have to make sure that that will
lead that program to return a missing value for the statistics that
your are collecting.

-- Maarten


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