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Re: st: Re: Error message when using overid after ivprobit
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
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Subject
Re: st: Re: Error message when using overid after ivprobit
Date
Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:46:02 +0000
Now your problem is clear. Install the latest version of -overid- from
SSC and the problem will go away.
Nick
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Alita Nandi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. Sorry about that.
>
> To illustrate the problem, I have now run the relevant Stata commands using
> a Stata dataset, lbw.dta.
>
> First I ran the following code
> ivprobit low age lwt race smoke (ui = ptl ht), twostep
>
> This worked well. Next I ran the following code
> overid
>
> This is a user-written code
> TITLE: SJ7-4 st0030_3. Update: Instrumental variables and GMM:...
> DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
> Update: Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and
> testing
> by Christopher F. Baum, Boston College
> Mark E. Schaffer, Heriot-Watt University
> Steven Stillman, Motu Economic Public Policy Research
> Support: [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected]
>
> Then I got the following error message:
> invalid syntax
> r(197);
>
> Thanks,
> Alita
>
> ************************************************************
> Re: st: Error message when using overid after ivprobit
> From Nick Cox <[email protected]>
> To [email protected]
> Subject Re: st: Error message when using overid after ivprobit
> Date Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:15:12 +0000
>
> Two suggestions:
>
> 1. Explain where user-written programs you refer to come from.
> (-overid-, -ivreg2-, ...)
>
> 2. Give a complete example of your exact syntax as typed into Stata
> (not schematic syntax). If possible reproduce the problem with one of
> Stata's own datasets.
>
> Please note
>
> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#stata
>
> Nick
>
>
> On 19/03/2012 13:38, Alita Nandi wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> If I type overid after ivprobit with the two-step option I get an error
>> message: "invalid syntax". I have tried overid and overid,
>> depvar(mydepvar). I am using Stata version 12, although the I get the
>> same error message when I controlled the version to 10 or 11. I cannot
>> figure out why I am getting this error message. Do you know what the
>> problem is? [It works after ivreg2]
>>
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