You need to tell us more about exactly what you typed and the
incidence of missing values.
In addition, note that -xtserial- is user-written, so that you are
expected to explain that and say where it comes from.
I doubt that having 386 observations is itself a problem.
Nick
njcoxstata@gmail.com
On 8 April 2013 15:34, Rodrigo Badilla <rodrigo.badilla@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for you reply and information, i did checked my variables and
> are not strings... probably the missing values could be the answer...
>
> anyway i have been read that autocorrelation test with xtserial should
> be used with panel data with a large number of data, could be this in
> relation with my problem ( i have only 386 samples)
2013/4/8 Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>:
>> This typically means that
>>
>> either some variable you think is numeric is really string
>>
>> or some variable contains missing values, prohibiting some calculation.
>>
>> We can't say more without knowing more about your data.
On 8 April 2013 13:52, Rodrigo Badilla <rodrigo.badilla@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am triying to run a autocorrelation tests with xtserial command,
>>> lamentably only get this error output: "no observations" previously i
>>> set my data with xtset command, my data set have 386 samples.
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