Martin is pointing in one wrong direction and one right direction here.
What Andrew typed is totally consistent with the syntax declared in the
early lines of -ipf- to -syntax-, i.e.
syntax [varlist (default=none)] [fweight/] , FIT(string) [
CONstr(string) CONFILE(string) CONVARS(varlist) SAVE(string) EXPect
NOLOG ACC(real 0.000001)]
That is, the option -fit()- takes a string. In Andrew's case he supplied
a character string with an expression "gender + party". That's perfectly
legal.
-syntax- does not know or care what the string _means_. (Otherwise put,
-syntax- knows nothing about semantics.)
Thus in particular note that the predictors in the model are not passed
via the -varlist-. In fact, a varlist is optional, the default is none,
and in this case none was supplied. So there is literally nothing for
-syntax- to object to as far as the varlist is concerned.
However, as pointed out earlier in the thread by several people, what
Andrew typed included names of string variables, and that's not
consistent with the expectations of -ipf-, and is caught indirectly
later in the program, as Martin correctly points out.
What the -syntax- command could do in 2000, or can do now, is not
material here.
Nick
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Martin Weiss
-trace-ing the thing shows that -ipf- does not catch the wrong type of
variable in your -varlist- at the first possible moment, i.e. in its
-syntax- statement, presumably because -syntax- was not capable of doing
that at the time the command was last edited, i.e. in 2000.
Stata finally chokes on a -drop- statement that asks it to compare the
string variable to the numeric missing value ".", which leads to the
"type
mismatch" error. Hard to diagnose without the benefit of -trace-...
Andrew Criswell
This seems like a straight forward example. But I don't understand why
it fails. I am using version 10.1
input str6 gender str8 party wgt
gender party wgt
male democrat 55
male repub 65
female democrat 50
female repub 30
end
. ipf [fweight = wgt], fit(gender + party)
Deleting all matrices......
Expansion of the various marginal models
----------------------------------------
marginal model 1 varlist : gender
marginal model 2 varlist : party
type mismatch
r(109);
end of do-file
r(109);
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