Re: st: a problem with an ado file (colelms)

[jean ries <ries@ires.ucl.ac.be>]

Juan,

I think that there are two versions of -gam- available: one from STB, 
and one from SSC (which is more recent). You are probably using the STB 
version. Just delete the already installed gam-files, and install the 
SSC version. You can get the SSC version by typing the following commands:

. ssc desc gam
. net get gam

Good luck!

jean


juan luna wrote:


> Dear all:
> I’m running “COLELMS ado” to compute age-dependent reference limits for
> height and weight; when I run the following command:
>
> colelms talla, agegroup(edadc4) sex(sexo)
>
> I get the following message error:
>
> “GAMFIT failure, $.out not found
> file $.out not found
> r(601);”
>
> can anyone help me?
> I know that colelms calls to gam (this in another ado which “creates the
> necessary input files for use by a version of the Fortran program GAMFIT,
> written by Trevor Hastie & Robert Tibshirani, and runs the program”) but I
> can’t find the way to proportionate the output file which seems to need
> gamfit.
> can anyone help me?
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