st: Stata Intercooled and memory requirements with micombine command

[Suzy <scott_788@wowway.com>]

I am attempting to conduct statistical analyses with m=10 imputations 
via the ICE and micombine commands. I've generated the imp.dta file just 
fine and can successfully upload it into Stata (slow ~ 1-2 minutes). I'm 
using the micombine command to generate a simple regression output - 
this works just fine with m=5 imputations. Stata cannot and/or will not 
run the analysis on my PC with m=10 imputations.

I have Stata intercooled - version 9.2 fully updated.

My PC has 512mb RAM with virtual memory option. I've tried my best to 
optimize my PC performance settings, though I'm not sure if my settings 
are truly optimizing performance.

In Stata, I've adjusted the memory for 600m, matsize 800, dropped all 
unnecessary variables and compressed the rest. In other words, I "think" 
I've maximized Stata intercooled performance.

I ran a describe, short on the imputation dataset:  imp.dta:

observations: 231,044
# var: 533
Size: 268,704,172 [57.3% memory free]


I have never had any performance problems for pictures, graphics, 
videos, movies, or any analysis with Stata.

I would appreciate any help on optimizing my PC and Stata intercooled 
performance for analysing m=10 or more imputations.

I sincerely hope I'm not doomed to needing to increase RAM or update to 
Stata SE. Those are not viable options for me at this time!

Thanks  for any help!

Suzy



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