Re: st: set memory with Stata/MP 10.0

[Ronan Conroy <rconroy@rcsi.ie>]

On 5 Feb 2008, at 16:48, Genty, Celine wrote:

> How can I open a database of 14 Go (11 columns and 186,000,000  
> rows) with Stata/MP 10.0 ?
It may be worth remembering that sample size estimation is the art of  
getting the required amount of precision with the minimum data.

Just because you have that many observations, you may not need them.

The existence of only 11 variables also suggests that the number of  
covariate patterns in your data is much less than the number of  
observations so that the dataset might also usefully collapsed.

But you do have a problem in that there's no way to get 14 gigs of  
data into 4 gigs of memory.


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