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| From | Matthew Baker <matthew.baker@hunter.cuny.edu> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: bayesmlogit |
| Date | Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:35:02 -0400 |
Well, that was easy! Nothing like reading through email, finding that there was a problem with your package, and that it was solved so efficiently. But let me ask: is the "variable overflow" issue related to bayesmlogit? It doesn't seem to be but I just wanted to be sure. And thanks Nick! Matt Baker On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Milena Przheska <milena.przheska@cosmicdevelopment.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Thank you very much for your reply. > The command did not return r(2000) after I encoded the variables, so > your guess was spot on. > > It did return an error for variable overflow r(1400), but I know that > is a totally different issue. > > I am relatively new to Stata, so I apologize if I violated some code > of conduct or failed to supply appropriate reference in my previous > message. > > In that regard, I would like to supplement my previous message with > the reference to the package I used to run the command > > package bayesmlogit from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/b > Author: Matthew Baker, Hunter College > > Once again, thank you very much. > > Best, > Milena > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote: >> -bayesmlogit- (SSC) is user-written. Please remember to explain where >> user-written programs come from. >> >> At a guess, your -rand- is a string variable but -bayesmlogit- wants >> it to be numeric. If so, use -encode- to produce a numeric variable >> with value labels. >> Nick >> njcoxstata@gmail.com >> >> >> On 21 August 2013 16:09, Milena Przheska >> <milena.przheska@cosmicdevelopment.com> wrote: >>> Dear Statalist members, >>> >>> I got error "no observations" r(2000) after running -bayesmlogit- >>> >>> I have a data set that contains choices of subjects at 4 separate >>> occasions, and a dependent variable - a dichotomous variable. >>> >>> The data set looks like this: >>> >>> id time prior y >>> 1 1 a 0 >>> 1 2 a 0 >>> 1 3 b 1 >>> 1 4 c 0 >>> 2 1 c 1 >>> 2 2 c 0 >>> 2 3 b 1 >>> 2 4 a 0 >>> 3 1 d 0 >>> 3 2 d 0 >>> 3 3 a 1 >>> 3 4 c 1 >>> >>> The commands I ran were >>> >>> bayesmlogit y, group(time) identifier(id) rand(prior) >>> >>> >>> and >>> >>> >>> bayesmlogit y, group(id) identifier(id) rand(prior) >>> >>> >>> Got the same error that there are no observations. >>> >>> >>> Can anyone please explain why this error occurs? >>> >>> >>> I appreciate your help and I thank you all in advance. >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Milena Przheska >>> * >>> * For searches and help try: >>> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >>> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >>> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ >> * >> * For searches and help try: >> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search >> * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ >> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Dr. Matthew J. Baker Department of Economics Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/