Re: st: why does stata creates missing values when running zinb model

[daniel klein <klein.daniel.81@googlemail.com>]

"[...] it seems Stata is just telling me how many observations it is
not using in this particular model. "

I do not believe Stata, or better the people at Stata Corp., intended
to show this as an informative message, otherwise it would probably be
phrased more appropriately.

I guess Maarten is correct in assuming there should probably be a
-quietly- added in the code somewhere. In particular these lines
(starting at line 126) from zinb.ado produce the message.

[...]
        if "`exposur'" != "" {
                tempvar off
                gen double `off' = ln(`exposur') if `touse'
                local offo "offset(`off')"
                local offstr "ln(`exposur')"
        }
[...]

Best
Daniel
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