Joseph,
Well, my dataset contains an unbalanced panel of 3615 individuals surveyed
across eight waves. That's a damned sight more than twelve!
Would you care to explain what on Earth 'quadrature points' are, anyway?
If I knew that, then I could fix it.
> At 01:50 AM 11/1/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>All,
>>
>>In attempt to run an -xtprobit- model, Stata returned this error message:
>>
>>number of quadrature points must be less than or equal to number of obs
>>r(198);
>
> Hard to say without knowing more about what you did, but from looking at
> -whelp xtprobit- it appears that the default number of quadrature points
> is
> 12, so Stata seems to think you have <12 obs, unless you specified a
> different value for quad(#). Try a) reducing the number of quadrature
> points or b) figuring out why Stata thinks you only have twelve obs (if
> that is incorrect).
>
>
>>Anyone care to explain this piece of double Dutch?!
>>
>>Yours,
>>CLIVE NICHOLAS,
>>Politics Building,
>>School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,
>>University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
>>Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
>>NE1 7RU,
>>United Kingdom.
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CLIVE NICHOLAS,
Politics Building,
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
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