Hi Sarah,
Long time since NASUG--I hope you are doing well. I'm emailing at long
last because the imminent release of Stata 9 has brought me back to
working on my introductory book on using Stata to analyze complex survey
data, and I would greatly appreciate your input.
Specifically, I wonder if you would be willing to give me input on what,
if any, publicly-available datasets do you use, and what sorts of analysis
you do? I'm hoping to include as wide a range of substantive examples as
possible, and most of what I'm familiar with is in the political science world.
Regarding analyses, I'm interested in both what sorts of basic techniques
you use (e.g., logistic; ordered probit; whatever), but in particular what
sorts of problems you tend to run into (or ran into when first dealing
with complex sampled data); what sorts of post-estimation and model fit
stuff you do, if any; things you found strange or confusing at first when
you first started dealing with complex samples, etc.
Thanks in advance, and certainly don't feel that you have to address
everything I've listed--I'm just trying to give you a sense of the sorts
of things that might help if you have thoughts on the top of your head.
Best,
Nick Winter
At 09:55 AM 4/4/2005 -0400, you wrote:
You also may need to increase the time before declaring a timeout. See:
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/web/errors.html
Sarah
Richard Williams wrote:
At 08:19 AM 4/4/2005 -0400, Hebe B. Quinton wrote:
Version 8 newly installed (windows XP). Update executable goes fine.
Update
ado times out "connecting to host", and the silly thing then will only
start
over from the very blinking beginning - there is no checkpoint to
realize that
9 mega bytes have already been down loaded! Each ado file is a
separate file,
so it would be possible NOT to start over each time. It is timing out at a
different place each attempt. Increasing the timeout variables has no
effect,
the process seems completely incapable of restarting once it pauses.
Are you sure the executable got updated? The recommended procedure for
a first-time update is
update executable
update swap
update all
Don't forget the update swap! If still having problems, follow the
directions for a non-internet update at
http://www.stata.com/support/updates/stata8.html
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Duke University School of Medicine
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