Re: st: re: conformability error r(503)

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

As the author of -svrmodel-, I'd like to take a crack at this.

Could you have the folks at UCLA open a log file, -set trace on-, run the 
command, and then e-mail me (privately) the contents of the trace?

(It will be a super-long output file, but that's OK).

--Nick Winter

At 10:49 AM 1/8/2004 -0600, you wrote:

> I am analyzing data from the California Health Interview Survey, but am not
> allowed to have the real data.
> I send my programs to the Data Programmers at UCLA and they run them for me.
>
>
> Every time they run the following SVR regression on black men, I get back a
> conformability (r503) error:
>
> xi: svrmodel activity  i.age i.nativity intEnglish i.neweduc married
> employed density stability ses4 immigrant if male=1&race==3
>
> Because I do not have access to the data, what should I do? How can I figure
> out where I have missing values and where the problem lies? I can send the
> programmers at UCLA any commands or programs, but am not sure what to do.
> This does not occur in the dummy data set I have, so I can't really explore
> the problem using the fake data.
>
> I only get it on this regression for black men and no other one......other
> regressions with black men and different outcomes work fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Namratha Kandula
>
> ____________________________
> Namratha Kandula, MD, MPH
> University of Chicago
> MC 2007
> 5841 S. Maryland Avenue
> Chicago, IL 60622
> phone: 772-834-9180
> fax: 773-702-1295
>
>
>
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