It sounds as if at least one variable is ordinal (as
it is a quintile (class)), and perhaps both.
In this situation Fisher's exact test would not
be matching what you know about your data in any case.
Also if you have -hourwkquintile- you may have
the underlying data.
More positive advice would seem to require more detail
on your data and research question.
Nick
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Julie Darnell
> I am using Stata 9 and set my memory to 950m (the maximum
> allowed on my
> computer).
>
> I attempted to execute the syntax below:
>
> tab hourwkquintile q25yearoffoundingnew, exact row col
>
> where there are 5 groups each for hourwkquintile variable and the
> q25yearoffounding variable, for a 5X5 table of 751 total cases.
>
> The command terminated with error 910, exceeded memory limits.
>
> In these cases, the Stata help for tabulate suggests using
> exact(2). I
> therefore re-ran the command:
>
> tab hourwkquintile q25yearoffoundingnew, exact(2) row col
>
> but the addition of (2) (or any larger number up to 25 after
> exact) does
> not allow the command to execute fully to its completion. It
> gets stuck
> during the stage 3 enumeration.
>
> Collapsing the categories to avoid having expected cell
> counts of 5 or
> fewer cases is not desired on conceptual grounds.
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