Re: st: hlm utility in Stata10

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

type -hep saveold- to find out

Grigore Pop-Eleches wrote:
> Thanks - that sounds reasonable. But how do I use the saveold option?
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:35:06 PM
> Subject: Re: st: hlm utility in Stata10
>
> It is much faster, and I often switch to HLM for large datasets.
> However, I usually find it easier to work directly with HLM than
> through -hlm-. Even for bootstrapping a Stata dataset, I usually
> use -saveold- and then use HLM command line calls from within Stata.
>
> hth,
> Jeph
>
>
> Grigore Pop-Eleches wrote:
> > You're right that xtmixed does much of the same stuff but it runs
> > excruciatingly slow on my computer (since I am using a very large
> > dataset) and I had heard that hlm is significantly faster.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ---- From: Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>
> >  To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009
> > 11:41:42 AM Subject: Re: st: hlm utility in Stata10
> >
> > Have you tried -xtmixed-? My understanding is that it covers most of what you can imagine with hierarchical linear models, although the terminology might be different (biostatistics vs. social sciences).
> >
> > On 3/11/09, Grigore Pop-Eleches <grigopop@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if you'd be kind enough to post the following
> > > question on Statalist.
> > >
> > > "I have been trying to run Sean Reardon's hlm utility in Stata 10,
> > > and even though I have successfully installed HLM 6.0 and the hlm
> > > module, and set the path name, I keep getting an error message in
> > > Stata saying "file HLM2MDM.STS not found" and in a separate window
> > > another message that HLM does not recognize my version of Stata.
> > > When running the mkmdm command, Stata creates a new .dta file, as
> > > well as a .mdmt and a .mdmvars file but not a .mdm file.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have an idea what could be going on? Does hlm only run
> > > with Stata 8.2 but not later versions? Or am I doing something
> > > wrong?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Grigore Pop-Eleches Politics Dep't - Princeton University
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