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You should start a new thread for this new subject, although the distinction between new and related subject may mean different things to different people...
I have observed severe declines over a couple of months in the ability to -set mem- over time as well. Does this have to do with fragmentation of the dsk?
HTH
Martin
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> Datum: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:56:15 -0500
> Von: Christian Bustamante <[email protected]>
> An: [email protected]
> Betreff: Re: st: Panel with minimum observations
> Thanks for your answers Joseph and Nick.
> I have another problem. When I tried to run -xtgls- Stata saids:
>
> insufficient memory for temporary matrix
> You need to increase the size of memory; see help memory.
> r(950);
>
> In a previous ocassion I ran the same command in the same laptop, I
> don't kwon what happens. Also, after I could assign more than 1gb to
> memory (I have 3gb of RAM), but now I can only assing 500mb.... what's
> going on?
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > -egen- is a slip here for -gen-. But you could do this without any new
> variables at all.
> >
> > bysort myid : drop if _N <= 2
> >
> > That said, I support Joseph's last paragraph strongly.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Joseph McDonnell
> >
> > . sort myid
> > . by myid: egen myN=_N
> > . drop if myN<=2
> >
> > Of course, dropping is quite a severe step. You might prefer to use
> > one of the 'mark' commands or just use the 'if' qualifier.
> >
> > Christian Bustamante
> >
> >> I runing a panel data model with a large dataset. The panel is
> >> unnbalanced, so there is individuals with one or two observations. I
> >> don't want to use this observations in my model, how can I set it?
> >
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> >
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