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Re: st: RE: Can I have different results from Stata13 depending on the OS?


From   Richard Williams <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: RE: Can I have different results from Stata13 depending on the OS?
Date   Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:08:14 -0500

If true, that is a little scary. My hope and expectation would be that the main difference would be how quickly you get the answer, but that in the end the answer would be the same. 

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> On Jan 21, 2014, at 2:38 PM, David Kantor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just want to add that I once had a situation in which I got different results in Stata MP vs. a single-processor version (of the same generation, I believe). I don't recall the details, but in the end, we decided to trust the Stata-MP result. Stata Technical Support explained that it had to do with MP making assumptions about what order some of the intermediary results could be computed -- or what could be concurrently. I could dig up the details of this matter, but at this point, the significant point is that, sometimes, MP can yield different results as compared to the single-processor version. Potentially, your two Statas could differ in that regard.
> --David
> 
> 
> At 05:54 PM 1/20/2014, David Radwin wrote in response to Erik Berwart:
>> It is difficult to tell why your results might differ from the limited information you provide here (see http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/#stata). Can you provide more details including sample data and code and actual output?
>> 
>> You also might use publicly available datasets to compare results from your installations with published accuracy test results. See http://www.stata.com/support/cert/ for details.
>> 
>> David
>> --
>> David Radwin, Senior Research Associate
>> Education and Workforce Development
>> RTI International
>> 2150 Shattuck Ave. Suite 800, Berkeley, CA 94704
>> Phone: 510-665-8274
>> 
>> www.rti.org/education
>> 
>> 
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
>> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of ERIK BERWART ARAYA
>> > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 1:03 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: st: Can I have different results from Stata13 depending on the
>> > OS?
>> >
>> > Dear Statalisters,
>> >
>> > I have installed Stata in my mac and in a virtual machine of windows8
>> > Last week the regression was taking a lot of time on windows so I decide
>> > to see if things were faster in the Mac version. I was shocked to see the
>> > results were different (I mean not only the magnitude of the coefficients
>> > but the lvalues, therefore, the interpretation using each version of
>> > outputs were completely different).
>> >
>> > Can anyone give me a hand here?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Erik Berwart
> 
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