Hi:
This solves the issue! Thank you.
John
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On 04.01.2010 16:05, Yulia Marchenko, StataCorp LP wrote:
> John Antonakis <[email protected]> asked about the r(111),
"variable not
> found", error after -mi impute-:
>
>> I am trying to use -mi-. I run the following with a data set that
has not
>> been declared as panel:
>>
>> qui mi set mlong
>> qui mi register imputed rule mal94p
>> qui set seed 29390
>> mi impute mvn rule mal94p = lat loggdp2 pop100km rel_frac, add(10)
>>
>> I get the following error:
>> . mi impute mvn rule mal94p = lat loggdp2 pop100km rel_frac, add(10)
>> variable year not found
>> r(111);
>>
>> I don't have a variable named YEAR in the dataset.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> -mi impute- checks if the variables declared as -tsset-, -xtset-,
etc. are
> also registered as imputed or passive variables and issues an error
if they
> are or if they don't exist. The error message John encountered is
most likely
> due to variable "year" being previously declared as a time or panel
variable
> with -tsset- or -xtset- and then dropped from the dataset. We will
improve
> this error message in the future.
>
> Prior to using -mi-, John should clear old no-longer-valid time-series or
> panel-data settings by typing
>
> . xtset, clear
>
> or
>
> . tsset, clear
>
> before -mi set-ing the data or
>
> . mi xtset, clear
>
> or
>
> . mi tsset, clear
>
> after -mi set-ing the data. If this does not solve John's issue,
John can
> send me his dataset privately and I'd be happy to take a look at the
problem
> and report back to the list.
>
>
> --Yulia
> [email protected]
>
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