RE: st: error on biprobit after update?

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

Some confusion here. As you say, an update is available dated 4 November 2010. 

If your executable still appears to be that of 30 September 2010, then I think you have not -update-d successfully or completely. 

Also, the kinds of messages you give strongly suggest to me an incomplete update -- and one that is independent of operating system. 

Regardless of that, the commands you give work fine for me on a Windows system and Stata executable and ados updated to 4 November 2010. 

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Robert Duval

Thanks Phil for checking. The error appeared on

Stata/IC 11.1 for Windows (32-bit Intel)
Born 30 Sep 2010

All the components are up to date.

I already reported the issue to Stata Technical Support, but it would
be useful to know if anyone else with the same system is facing the
same problem.

On 07/11/2010, at 7:17 PM,  Phil Clayton wrote:

>Works perfectly here, on:
>Stata/IC 11.1 for Mac (64-bit Intel)
>Born 04 Nov 2010

>On 07/11/2010, at 7:02 PM, Robert Duval wrote:

> Can anyone reproduce the following error on biprobit after the Nov 04 update?
>
>
> webuse school
> biprobit private vote logptax loginc years
>
>
> Fitting full model:
>
>          _mopt_vecsum():  3257  nonpointer found where pointer required
>           mopt_vecsum():     -  function returned error
>         mopt__check_e():     -  function returned error
>      mopt__calluser_e():     -  function returned error
>       opt__eval_nr_e2():     -  function returned error
>             opt__eval():     -  function returned error
> opt__looputil_iter0_common():     -  function returned error
> opt__looputil_iter0_nr():     -  function returned error
>          opt__loop_nr():     -  function returned error
>            _moptimize():     -  function returned error
>           Mopt_maxmin():     -  function returned error
>                 <istmt>:     -  function returned error
> r(3257);
>

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