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Re: st: AW: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
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Steve Samuels <[email protected]>
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Re: st: AW: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
Date
Wed, 2 Jun 2010 09:31:56 -0400
Works in Stata 11 for me, too (Mac OS X 10.5.8). Perhaps a fresh
install of Stata from the CD and license, followed by an single update
to the latest version will help.
Steve
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Martin Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> <>
>
> Strangely, I get the correct result in Stata 11:
>
>
>
> Country |
> code | COUNTRY==56
> 3-digit | 0 1 | Total
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> 40 | 4,927 0 | 4,927
> 56 | 0 8,857 | 8,857
> 203 | 5,932 0 | 5,932
> 208 | 4,532 0 | 4,532
> 233 | 4,865 0 | 4,865
> 246 | 4,714 0 | 4,714
> 250 | 4,716 0 | 4,716
> 276 | 4,891 0 | 4,891
> 300 | 4,873 0 | 4,873
> 348 | 4,490 0 | 4,490
> 372 | 4,585 0 | 4,585
> 380 | 21,773 0 | 21,773
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> Total | 70,298 8,857 | 79,155
>
>
> What happens after a restart of Stata for you?
>
>
> HTH
> Martin
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Walter
> Garcia-Fontes
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010 15:07
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: AW: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
>
> * Martin Weiss [02/06/10 15:00]:
>> This code produces consistent results for me:
>>
>> *************
>> webuse set http://puna.upf.edu
>> webuse data/data.dta
>> xi i.COUNTRY
>> ta COUNTRY _ICOUNTRY_56, nol
>> *************
>
> This is what I get:
>
> . ta COUNTRY _ICOUNTRY_56, nol
>
> Country |
> code | COUNTRY==56
> 3-digit | 0 1 | Total
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> 40 | 4,927 0 | 4,927
> 56 | 265 8,592 | 8,857
> 203 | 5,932 0 | 5,932
> 208 | 4,532 0 | 4,532
> 233 | 4,865 0 | 4,865
> 246 | 4,714 0 | 4,714
> 250 | 4,716 0 | 4,716
> 276 | 4,891 0 | 4,891
> 300 | 4,873 0 | 4,873
> 348 | 4,490 0 | 4,490
> 372 | 4,444 141 | 4,585
> 380 | 21,773 0 | 21,773
> -----------+----------------------+----------
> Total | 70,422 8,733 | 79,155
>
> See the 0's in 56 and the ones in 372 that shouldn't be there.
>
> Now that you said I tried it from another machine with stata 10 and I
> get the right results.
>
> Is "xi" deprecated in Stata 11?
>
> Walter
>
>>
>>
>> HTH
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Walter
>> Garcia-Fontes
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010 14:47
>> An: Statalist
>> Betreff: st: Problem with xi (Stata 11)
>>
>> I have a problem with the "xi" command in Stata 11 (completely updated
>> as of today). I tried to create a dataset as simple as possible to
>> reproduce the problem, which can be accessed from my server. In the
>> dataset there is a single variable called COUNTRY with numeric codes
>> for each country and labels identifying the country.
>>
>> There are 12 different values for COUNTRY (12 different countries) and
>> 79155 observations with a variable number of observations for each
> country.
>> To reproduce:
>>
>> webuse set http://puna.upf.edu
>> webuse data/data.dta
>> xi i.COUNTRY
>>
>> Stata creates variables _ICOUNTRY_n as it should, where n are the
>> different codes for the 12 countries, omitting the country with the
>> smallest code.
>>
>> The problem is that some of the values of _ICOUNTRY are 0 when they
>> shouldn't be, for instance I have cases where _ICOUNTRY_56 = 0 but
>> COUNTRY = 56. This happens randomly for a few cases and I've looked at
>> it from all angles but couldn't figure out what is going on.
>>
>> If I reduce the number of variables or the number of observations the
>> problem disappears at some point, can't tell exactly when, so I'm
>> providing the smallest example I could build.
>>
>> Walter
>>
>
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