Re: st: RE: RE: RE: Stata errors large data

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 11:30 AM 3/29/2004 +0100, Nick Cox wrote:
> This sounds like something you should talk
> through with Stata tech-support, but they'd need
> precise details on your set-up. Perhaps
> you are asking for so much memory that Stata
> is using virtual memory and so becoming inordinately
> slow.
Indeed, this is one of the issues raised in the FAQs on memory allocation 
at http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data/#mem

Can you create an extract with fewer variables?  Or perhaps run the 
analysis on a random subsample of the data? You might do preliminary 
analysis on a random subsample and then run final models on the entire data 
set.

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