Patrick Royston has not been a member of Statalist
for some years. I doubt that your guess is precisely
in the right territory, particularly in terms of
what a Fortran program might do here.
Perhaps you could try other solutions such as
. estimates clear
before firing up
. xtmixed
again.
Nick
[email protected]
Dr. Stephen Rothenberg
> The problem was solved by exiting Stata, shutting down the
> machine, booting
> up cold and re-running the commands.
>
> Previous to the xtmixed problems I had been running a set of
> -gam- models on
> another data set.
>
> After successfully running -xtmixed- on a clean machine and
> unused Stata
> session, I then tried a -gam- analysis and went back to
> -xtmixed-. The
> problem re-appeared.
>
> Apparently -gam- now does something bad to Stata 9.1, leaving
> it in a state
> from which it cannot use what -xtmixed requires. Perhaps its
> call to a
> FORTRAN program is what screws up the subsequent -xtmixed-.
> The problem
> doesn't occur after -gam- when I run the "pig" data set with
> regress nor
> when I try -xtreg, mle-, but I don't have time to
> exhaustively test all
> the -xt- commands
>
> Does anyone know if Patrick Royston or Gareth Ambler, the
> authors of -gam-,
> are still members of statalist?
>
> Thanks for clueing me that it was something I had done, Nick, and not
> general to Stata 9.1.
>
> Best,
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 3:08 PM
> Subject: st: RE: Re: RE: xtmixed broken in Stata 9.1?
>
>
> > That clearly looks OK. The explanation
> > must therefore lie elsewhere, but I've
> > run out of ideas.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Dr. Stephen Rothenberg
> >
> >> Here is my update status:
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> -------------------
> >> update query
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >> -------------------
> >> (contacting http://www.stata.com)
> >>
> >> Stata executable
> >> folder: C:\Program Files\Stata9\
> >> name of file: wsestata.exe
> >> currently installed: 15 Sep 2005
> >> latest available: 15 Sep 2005
> >>
> >> Ado-file updates
> >> folder: C:\Program Files\Stata9\ado\updates\
> >> names of files: (various)
> >> currently installed: 19 Sep 2005
> >> latest available: 19 Sep 2005
> >>
> >> Recommendation
> >> Do nothing; all files up to date.
> >>
> >> Click to edit automatic update checking preferences
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Nick Cox
> >
> >> > This works for me.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps you updated your executable, but not
> >> > the other files.
> >
> > Dr. Stephen Rothenberg
> >
> >> >> I'm trying to run -xtmixed- in Stata 9.1 SE, Windows XP,
> >> >> after successfully using it in Stata 9.0.
> >> >>
> >> >> I keep getting the same error message no matter what my model
> >> >> specs are (see
> >> >> below). Finally I tried copying Example 1 from the -xtmixed-
> >> >> section of the
> >> >> panel data manual.
> >> >>
> >> >> I downloaded the "pig" data set used in the example and tried
> >> >> the code
> >> >> listed there:
> >> >>
> >> >> . use http://www.stata-press.com/data/r9/pig
> >> >> (Longitudinal analysis of pig weights)
> >> >>
> >> >> . xtmixed weight week || id:
> >> >> last estimates not found
> >> >> r(301);
> >> >>
> >> >> The "not found" error message is the same problem when I use
> >> >> my own data
> >> >> set.
> >> >>
> >> >> Am I doing something dumb or is -xtmixed- broked in Stata 9.1?
> >
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