Do these variables drop out of your datafile or out of your model? What
did you do _exactly_?
-- Maarten
--- Nikolaus Rentrop <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stata community,
>
> I'm quite new to this mailing list, so I hope that this topic hasn't
> been discussed already without me noticing. Currently I'm having a
> major
> problem while working with Stata for a university term paper: I'm
> conducting a short pooled time series analysis in Stata 10 SE but I
> can't even get to the actual statistics because Stata keeps dropping
> variables randomly when I'm working with the data editor. Every time
> I
> generate a new variable, insert the data, label it and try to save
> the
> file, suddenly one or two variables disappear magically. The problem
> is
> mentioned nowhere in the official Stata community forums and when I
> googled the issue, there were only a few posts reporting the same
> problem.
>
> So, basicly, I'm just interested whether any of you have ever
> experienced the same problem or whether it is somehow a very exotic
> one.
> If somebody comes up with a solution, this would be great, of course.
> I
> am looking forward to receiving your responses soon, because -
> understandably - this is a quite fundamental problem ;).
>
> Best regards from Germany,
>
> Niko
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