Neil gave you good and accurate
advice, which works for me too.
You may need to try again
and/or give more details of
your set-up to Stata tech support.
Nick
[email protected]
Shyamal Kumar Das
> I am forwarding the following message for you. I know that I
> am a novice in handling with STATA. What I did has been
> explained below in the mail to Neil.
> When I followed your instruction I got the following
> message:
>
> file http://www.stata.com/st0067_1.pkg not found
> server says file temporarily redirected to
> http://www.stata.com/error/404.html
> could not load st0067_1.pkg from http://www.stata.com/
> r(601);
>
> Now let me tell you what I had done before I sent you the
> earlier e-mail:
> Yes, I typed for "findit ice", and I got a page with bunch
> of files to be installed, and I clicked for installation,
> and it says after sometime that "no file copied or
> installed" like that statement.
>
> When I type the command for ice as per Royston, Stata says
> "ice is not recognized" like statement. Then I tried "mice"
> (just blunt guess), and got the same message.
>
> By the way, yes, you are correct that I wanted Royston's
> imputation in my STATA 9.0.
Neil Shephard
> >> I tried to install ice and run it, but each time I did
> >> it, STATA 9.0 could not recognize that. Can someone shed
> >> some light on it? I need to know how to install it
> >> correctly so that STATA 9.0 can recognize it.
> >
> > You don't say *exactly how* you tried to install the
> > package ice (in terms of the commands you typed in Stata)
> > , nor do you indicate what error messages are occuring
> > when you try to use the command, or *exactly* what you
> > are typing to cause an error, such information is very
> > useful when seeking assistance. This is detailed under
> > section 3 in the statalist FAQ, see URL at the bottom of
> > all posts.
> >
> > I'll hazard a guess that you are referring to the packages
> > for "Multiple Imputation of missing values" of Patrick
> > Royston's published in the Stata Journal 5(2).
> >
> > In Stata do the following...
> >
> > net install st0067_1.pkg
> >
> > and that should install all relevant files for you. You
> > may need to specify the replace option (see -man net- for
> > more details).
> >
> > Alternatively you could have typed...
> >
> > findit ice
> >
> > and then followed the hyperlinks to install the package
> > you want (See the findit hyperlink for more information
> > on how to use that command).
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