Takahiro Higashi
> I was using the "hotdeck" command that you wrote on STATA.
> I get a strange
> error of "invalid 'and'". Since it happens when I ran
> hotdeck, I think it
> comes from the command. The actual output is like below.
> Does anybody know
> why this happens and/or how to solve it?
>
> >From previous posting, I tried the following address, but
> it seems not
> existent any more.
>
> net from http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/personal/adrian
>
> ----the output starts here--------------------
> . hotdeck b11, by(gender lths inc risk) store impute(5) keep(id)
> DELETING all matrices....
>
> Table of the Missing data patterns
> * signifies missing and - is not missing
>
> Varlist order: b11
>
> pattern | Freq. Percent Cum.
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> * | (table omitted)
> - |
> ------------+-----------------------------------
> Total |
> invalid 'and'
>
> ----output end--------
This refers to a command -hotdeck- written by
Adrian Mander and David Clayton. Adrian no longer works
at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge.
He now works at GSK:
[email protected]
He appears not to be a member of Statalist at present,
so I suggest you write to him directly.
This raises a more general question: how
do I find the authors of user-written programs?
Various possibilities:
1. They are active members of Statalist. Their
email addresses may be apparent from a search
of recent Statalist postings.
2. They are members of Statalist, but not
very active. You can find out who is a member
of Statalist by emailing [email protected].
The details are in the Statalist FAQ.
3. They are not members of Statalist. Several
writers of Stata programs are not. Within Stata
-findit- often finds a recent address. (This is how
I found Adrian's address above.) Otherwise
there is always the possibility of a search engine.
Of course, there are all sorts of reasons why
users do not _necessarily_ maintain support
for their Stata programs. They are too busy, they switched
to some other software, as far as they are concerned it
is superseded or obsolete, etc.
Nick
[email protected]
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
