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st: RE: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using any parentheses


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using any parentheses
Date   Wed, 6 Dec 2006 21:33:56 -0000

Are both executable and ados -update-d? 

Does this happen if you try variables with no
variable label?

Can you reproduce with the auto dataset?

Nick 
[email protected] 

Joe McCrary
 
> I get a strange error message on a histogram command using Stata 9.2
> on Windows X64:
> 
> . histogram mc2t0405
> (bin=20, start=44.09, width=2.7955)
> parentheses unbalanced
> r(132);
> 
> However, I have no problem summarizing the same variable.
> 
> . summarize  mc2t0405, detail
> 
>        math % meeting and exceeding standards for all
>               students [overall district standa
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>       Percentiles      Smallest
>  1%        58.28          44.09
>  5%        65.81          53.72
> 10%        71.25          54.31       Obs                 436
> 25%       81.455          55.38       Sum of Wgt.         436
> 
> 50%        89.87                      Mean           87.22103
>                         Largest       Std. Dev.      10.67012
> 75%        95.58            100
> 90%        98.76            100       Variance       113.8515
> 95%        99.88            100       Skewness      -1.049067
> 99%          100            100       Kurtosis       3.645815
> 
> Has anyone seen this? It's happening for any variable I try to run a
> histogram on.

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