Re: st: nlsuraids returned 199, please help

["ABDULFATAH S, ADAM" <bihiabdul@yahoo.com>]

Dear Brian,
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your help.
It seems it is working, as I am now getting this: "cannot have fewer observations than parameters". This is because i am using an aggregated panel data with 84 observations while I have 88 parameters in my model. Since I have the same data which is not aggregated, I am going to use that and hope it will work this time.
I will, of course, let you know if there is still a problem.

Best Regards,
Abdul



--- On Sat, 5/7/11, Brian P. Poi <brian@poiholdings.com> wrote:

> From: Brian P. Poi <brian@poiholdings.com>
> Subject: Re: st: nlsuraids returned 199, please help
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 7:53 AM
> 
> On 05/07/2011 06:14 AM, ABDULFATAH S, ADAM wrote:
> > Dear Brian,
> > Thank you very much for your help.
> > After correcting the errors you identified, I still
> have the same error.
> > 
> > capture program drop nlsuraids
> > quietly: program define nlsuraids
> >     version 10.0
> >     syntax varlist (min=24 max=24) if,
> at(name)
> >     tokenize `varlist'
> >     args w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 w6 w7 w8 w9 w10
> w11 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 ///
> >     lnp4 lnp5 lnp6 lnp7 lnp8 lnp9 lnp10
> lnp11 lnp12 lnexp ///
> >     tempname a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9
> a10 a11 a12
> 
> You added a line-continuation mark where you didn't need
> one, after "lnexp".  The last three lines should be
> 
>    args w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 w6 w7 w8 w9 w10 w11
> lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 ///
>         lnp4 lnp5 lnp6 lnp7 lnp8 lnp9
> lnp10 lnp11 lnp12 lnexp
>    tempname a1 a2 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 a10
> a11 a12
> 
> > I believe there is some punctuation or
> misspecification somewhere
> in the program, unfortunately I cant see where. It would
> also be nice
> if you give me 'shortcut' tips on how to identify such
> errors easily
> (if such tips are available) without going over the whole
> program every
> time.
> 
> Before calling -nlsur-, type in
> 
>    . set trace on
>    . set tracedepth 4
> 
> Then issue your -nlsur- command.
> 
> Scroll up a bit in the results window, and with your
> program (before including my latest fix) you'll see
> 
> 
>       - args w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 w6 w7 w8 w9 w10
> w11 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 lnp4 lnp5 lnp6 l
> > np7 lnp8 lnp9 lnp10 lnp11 lnp12 lnexp tempname a1 a2
> a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 a10
> >  a11 a12
>       - scalar `a1'=`at'[1,1]
>       = scalar =__000003[1,1]
>      
> ------------------------------------------------------- end
> nlsuraids ---
>     - }
> 
> 
> The fact that the last command (-scalar-) didn't recognize
> `a1' and the fact that tempname occurred right after lnexp
> was enough to tell me where to look.  Then I saw that
> you had an extra /// where it shouldn't have been.
> 
> Once your program is running, you can type
> 
>    . set trace off
> 
> to turn the debugging messages off.  See -help trace-
> for more information.
> 
>    -- Brian Poi
>    -- brian@poiholdings.com
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