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Re: st: Error message when trying to regression model with eststo prefix.


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Error message when trying to regression model with eststo prefix.
Date   Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:27:29 +0000

I think you need to tell us which version of -eststo- you are using.
As Maarten implies, it may not be up-to-date.

Please show us the results of

. which eststo, all

Nick

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Amal Khanolkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks for the inputs - but problem persists:
>
> . eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear if magecat!=. & parity!=. & education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> i.ethnicity2      _Iethnicity_1-22    (naturally coded; _Iethnicity_1 omitted)
>
> Logistic regression                               Number of obs   =    1766026
>                                                   Wald chi2(23)   =     358.39
>                                                   Prob > chi2     =     0.0000
> Log pseudolikelihood = -63492.073                 Pseudo R2       =     0.0026
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              |               Robust
>  verypreterm | Odds Ratio   Std. Err.      z    P>|z|     [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> _Iethnici~_2 |   1.098215   .2049259     0.50   0.616     .7618228    1.583145
> _Iethnici~_3 |   1.002859   .1235384     0.02   0.982     .7877414    1.276722
> _Iethnici~_4 |   .9890319   .2408004    -0.05   0.964     .6137163     1.59387
> _Iethnici~_5 |   1.765255   .3048327     3.29   0.001     1.258398    2.476265
> _Iethnici~_6 |   1.485207   .1278522     4.59   0.000      1.25462    1.758173
> _Iethnici~_7 |   .7250081   .1818284    -1.28   0.200     .4434716    1.185277
> _Iethnici~_8 |   1.114882   .1489949     0.81   0.416     .8579709    1.448722
> _Iethnici~_9 |   .8845685   .1525027    -0.71   0.477     .6309302    1.240171
> _Iethnici~10 |   1.055989   .2317579     0.25   0.804     .6868251    1.623576
> _Iethnici~11 |   .7750467    .188535    -1.05   0.295     .4811358    1.248499
> _Iethnici~12 |   .9487346   .1232701    -0.41   0.685     .7354399     1.22389
> _Iethnici~13 |   1.494765   .1870169     3.21   0.001     1.169701    1.910164
> _Iethnici~14 |   1.306816   .2362243     1.48   0.139     .9169563    1.862432
> _Iethnici~15 |   1.121471   .2169946     0.59   0.554     .7675174    1.638657
> _Iethnici~16 |   1.371584   .2082696     2.08   0.037     1.018523     1.84703
> _Iethnici~17 |   1.403515   .3641343     1.31   0.191      .844068    2.333762
> _Iethnici~18 |   .5622209   .1563278    -2.07   0.038      .326007    .9695875
> _Iethnici~19 |   1.810028   .3975107     2.70   0.007     1.176923    2.783701
> _Iethnici~20 |   1.673301   .0567692    15.17   0.000     1.565654    1.788349
> _Iethnici~21 |   1.132377     .05108     2.76   0.006      1.03656    1.237051
> _Iethnici~22 |   1.523688   .1012357     6.34   0.000     1.337646    1.735605
>          sex |   .8768431   .0173419    -6.65   0.000      .843504    .9114999
>        byear |   1.000675   .0017452     0.39   0.699     .9972599    1.004101
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (est1 stored)
>
> .
> end of do-file
>
> . eststo:  logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear if magecat!=. & parity!=. & education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> factor variables not allowed
>
> The first regression above works when I include the 'xi:' prefix, the exact same regression however does not work when 'xi' is dropped.
>
> I'm running 4 logistic regression models with different confounders and I'm using the eststo command as I would like to get all four models side by side:
>
> eststo clear
> eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear if magecat!=. & parity!=. & education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity if education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1
> eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity ib2.education i.famsit_new2 if smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity ib2.education i.famsit_new2 i.smoke1 if multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> esttab, eform ci
>
>
> or,
>
> eststo clear
> eststo:  logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear if magecat!=. & parity!=. & education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> eststo:  logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity if education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1
> eststo:  logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity ib2.education i.famsit_new2 if smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> eststo:  logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity ib2.education i.famsit_new2 i.smoke1 if multibirth==1, vce (robust)
> esttab, eform ci
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amal Khanolkar
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Maarten Buis [[email protected]]
> Sent: 11 February 2013 13:58
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: Error message when trying to regression model with eststo prefix.
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Amal Khanolkar wrote:
>> I'm trying to run the regression model below. I get an error message that says 'factor variables' not allowed.
>>
>> This is quite strange, given that I ran the exact same regression model last week and had no problems! Can anyone tell me what's going wrong?
>>
>> . eststo: xi: logistic verypreterm i.ethnicity2 sex byear ib3.magecat i.parity if education!=. & famsit_new2!=. & smoke1!=. & multibirth==1, vce (robust)
>
> It seems that you have two problems:
>
> 1) you are mixing -xi:- syntax with factor variable syntax, this is
> obviously a very bad idea. The easiest solution is just leave the
> -xi:- prefix away and all should work as planned.
>
> 2) You have an outdated version of -estout-. So typing in Stata: -ssc
> install estout, replace- should solve that problem. The following
> works just fine for me:
>
> *------------------ begin example ------------------
> sysuse auto, clear
> recode rep78 1/2=3
> eststo: logit foreign i.rep78##c.trunk turn
> esttab
> *------------------- end example -------------------
> (For more on examples I sent to the Statalist see:
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl/example_faq )
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