Re: st: Unbalanced parentheses in command when I'm not using anyparentheses

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

Could it be related to the unbalanced "[" in the variable label?

Just a thought.

Joe McCrary wrote:
> 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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