You're in good company. Many Stata programmers who now wonder now why
they ever failed to notice this detail wasted some time before they did.
Nick
[email protected]
[email protected]
That was the problem. It's hard not to feel silly when it was something
that
simple. Thank you very much.
Ryan
Quoting Maarten buis <[email protected]>:
>
> --- On Mon, 27/7/09, [email protected] wrote:
> > I'm writing my own maximum likelihood program to run in
> > stata 10 for windows and whenever I run -ml check- on
> > the code it returns " ' invalid name" after parsing the
> > first line of the actual likelihood function.
>
> In Stata local macros and temprorary variable names are
> referred to as `what_ever' rather than 'what_ever', notice
> the distinction between "`" and "'".
>
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