RE: st: unexpected end of file when execute glm

["Martin Weiss" <martin.weiss1@gmx.de>]

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HTH
Martin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
[mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of G. Dai
Sent: Mittwoch, 7. Juli 2010 17:52
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: unexpected end of file when execute glm

thanks Eric,  I fixed it. it works now.

But another problem is the glm execute very very slow. Actually, it
took me 2 or three hours to finish the command.
I don/'t have many obs, about 4000. So, why is it so slow?


On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Eric Booth <ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu> wrote:
> <>
>
> Hi Guang:
>
> It looks like the issue might be with the comment in your first line:
>
> 13.  svy: glm       r`i'pin r`i'`x'nhu /*parental NH stay experience*
>
> you don't close it with  "*/", so Stata keeps looking for the end of the
comment, which it never finds.
>
> ~ Eric
> __
> Eric A. Booth
> Public Policy Research Institute
> Texas A&M University
> ebooth@ppri.tamu.edu
> Office: +979.845.6754
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>
> On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:39 AM, G. Dai wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>> I'm using glm command to estimate a fraction probit model.
>> however, when the do file goes to the following part, it always
>> remind me the message of
>> "unexpected end of file
>> r(612);
>> "
>> I double checked it without finding anything wrong.
>>
>> More wired, the do file did work yesterday though very slow. actually,
>> it took me hours to finish the estimation.
>>
>> any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Guang
>>
>> ************************excerpt begins******************
>>
>> 13.  svy: glm       r`i'pin r`i'`x'nhu /*parental NH stay experience*
>>>               h`i'itot h`i'atotf /*income and financial wealth*/
>>>               r`i'conde r`i'adlsa r`i'iadlsa /*health condition and
status*/
>>>               r`i'nrshom /*past NH experience*/
>>>               raedyrs  r`i'agey_b  ragender /*identity*/
>>>               h`i'child r`i'hiltc /*health insurance and children*/
>>>               i.r`i'cenreg,fam(bi 1) link(probit);
>>> estimates store glm_`x';
>>
>> unexpected end of file
>> r(612);
>>
>
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