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Re: st: Stata always breaks down when we use -nnmatch-
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Tara McIndoe Calder <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Stata always breaks down when we use -nnmatch-
Date
Sat, 27 Nov 2010 11:41:18 +0000
Thank-you that is most helpful.
I wonder what is likely to be going on if the only thing I change between
running the command successfully and getting the error message is the sample
size? Is there an old help file I should be looking at?
Best, Tara
On 27 November 2010 11:29, Tara McIndoe Calder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thank-you that is most helpful.
> I wonder what is likely to be going on if the only thing I change between running the command successfully and getting the error message is the sample size? Is there an old help file I should be looking at?
> Best, Tara
>
> On 26 November 2010 20:24, Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Tara_McIndoe_Calder <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Has there been any further progress regarding solving this issue with
>> > nnmatch? I am able to run the estimator on a sub-sample (2,000 observations)
>> > of my dataset (17,000 observations) but above 2000 observations I run into
>> > memory issues, even on high memory computers.
>>
>> This is the default error message that is printed in response to any
>> error -nnmatch- is encountering, not only those that are related to
>> memory issues. A misleading error message is a terrible practice; the
>> users would've been better off with the original un-capture-d
>> messages. -set trace on- and look for what this command is missing;
>> may be it needs a certain variable or a parameter that you did not
>> specify.
>>
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