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RE: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: error messages while using the stgest command


From   Victor Mauricio Herrera <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   RE: st: RE: RE: RE: RE: error messages while using the stgest command
Date   Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:21:55 -0500

Nick is right. After removing the parenthesis everything works fine. Also, variables created by lafconf and baseconf are dropped after running stgest and this prevented weibull from runing. Once I recreated them with makebase and makelag the weibull model and gesttowb ran also without problem.

Thanks!
Victor.

On 06/04/10, Nick Cox  <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, that's my guess. 
> 
> If it gets as far as the -graph- command then the local macro options is
> discovered at that point, and only then, to contain junk that Stata
> can't make sense of. 
> 
> It's my impression that in this sense Stata has not changed for some
> while. Any parsing that leaves a residuum of buggy material in some
> local macro will not bite unless and until that macro is scrutinised. 
> 
> Here's a demo: 
> 
> Here's a program: 
> 
> program martin
> 	syntax [, * ] 
> 	sysuse auto, clear
> 	regress mpg weight 
> end
> 
> Here I run it: 
> 
> . martin, complete and utter nonsense
> 
> (1978 Automobile Data)
> 
>       Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =
> 74
> -------------+------------------------------           F(  1,    72) =
> 134.62
>        Model |   1591.9902     1   1591.9902           Prob > F      =
> 0.0000
>     Residual |  851.469256    72  11.8259619           R-squared     =
> 0.6515
> -------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =
> 0.6467
>        Total |  2443.45946    73  33.4720474           Root MSE      =
> 3.4389
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>          mpg |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
> Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>       weight |  -.0060087   .0005179   -11.60   0.000    -.0070411
> -.0049763
>        _cons |   39.44028   1.614003    24.44   0.000     36.22283
> 42.65774
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> 
> What happened: 
> 
> 1. I typed as if they were options "complete and utter nonsense". 
> 
> 2. A consequence of the -syntax- statement is that a local macro options
> is created with contents "complete and utter nonsense". 
> 
> 3. My program never actually used `options'. Thus my program never bit
> me, and Stata never complained, even though I typed (you guessed) some
> nonsense on the command line. 
> 
> Nick 
> [email protected] 
> 
> Martin Weiss
> 
> So, given your experience of Stata 7, Nick: Did the misplaced
> paranthesis
> somehow end up in the -options- for the -graph- command? The error
> message
> initially reported by Victor in
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2010-06/msg00133.html would seem
> to
> indicate this sequence of events.
> 
> Nick Cox
> 
> The first error now seems pretty clear.  
> 
> The parenthesis ( before lasttime(endfudate) is what is causing the
> error. Delete it. 
> 
> (You are probably misreading the syntax diagram within which the square
> brackets [ ] group together optional options and are not characters to
> be typed.)  
> 
> Victor Mauricio Herrera
> 
> Regarding the first error, I included no graph options in my
> instructions. This is exactly what I typed:
> 
> stgest diabetes cursmoke agebase sex hyperten obese, lagconf(hyperten
> obese diabetes) baseconf(hyperten obese diabetes) /*
> */ visit(visit) firstvis(2) (lasttime(endfudate) range(-50 50) step(1)
> saveres(caergestsmoknocens) replace
> 
> I tried with two different datasets and got the same error.
> 
> 
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VICTOR M. HERRERA MD. MS.
Research Assistant - Wisconsin Diabetes Registry
Population Health Sciences Department
University of Wisconsin
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