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st: RE: limit on IVs for multiple regression


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: limit on IVs for multiple regression
Date   Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:23:21 +0100

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> 
> Is there a limit on the number of IVs in a multiple 
> regression?  If I enter
> in too many, I get r(2000).  As I eliminate them one by one 
> I am eventually
> able to run it.

Are IVs so-called independent variables or instrumental 
variables? 

Whatever: r(2000) means "no observations". I guess that 
something else is biting, principally any 
missing values. 

One way to find out is 

. egen nmiss = rmissing(<varlist>) 
. count if nmiss == 0  


Nick 
[email protected] 
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