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Re: st: AW: AW: RE: AW: label problem in sts test


From   [email protected] (Kevin Crow, StataCorp)
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: AW: AW: RE: AW: label problem in sts test
Date   Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:58:01 -0500

Isabelle Deltour <[email protected]> writes

>For a survival analysis, I made a dataset where I had assigned a label
>To a variable, but, by mistake, the label was not defined. 
>I think that this situation produced an error message in the 
>command sts test. 
>
>
>sts test DV 
>
>         failure _d:  diaggrp
>   analysis time _t:  (DateOfFup-origin)/365.25
>             origin:  time fdato
>  exit on or before:  diaggrp==10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
>130 140 time mdy(12, 1, 2006)
>                 id:  pnr
>value label YesNoLbl not found
>r(111);
>
>. label list
>
>Is this expected? Have others met this situation?
>(Note that I fixed my problem by assigning the label as it should have
>been in the first place. )
>

As Martin Weiss <[email protected]> points out, the -decode- command is 
issuing the error.  -sts test- needs an extra check to make sure the value
label exist.  This will be fixed in the next Stata ado update.

Kevin Crow
StataCorp
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