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Re: st: RE: variable not found?


From   Christian OTCHIA <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: variable not found?
Date   Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:17:48 +0900

Paul,

Try this:

format %6.1g GROUP

test GROUP


Christian



On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Kieran McCaul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> If you entered GROUP as a factor variable (for example, as i.GROUP or
> ib0.GROUP) then you will get this error message.
>
> Try:
> test 1.GROUP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul
> Burkander
> Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011 9:54 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: variable not found?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to help my wife do some stata homework, and we've run into
> some odd behavior.
>
> Below is a sample of the data.  She's supposed to do a manova of
> MOTIV,ASPIRE,ALGEBRA,GEOM, on GROUP , then mvreg, then test the
> restriction that the coefficients on GROUP are zero in all four
> equations.  After doing the manova and mvreg, we typed test GROUP, but
> receive the error message "GROUP not found."
>
> Any ideas?  Perhaps we're doing something dumb?  She entered the data
> by pasting into the data editor.  We're using Stata 11 SE and I just
> did a full update.
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> MOTIV,ASPIRE,ALGEBRA,GEOM,GROUP
> 74.31,78.57,68.59,78.57,1
> 27.15,61.91,37.15,71.43,1
> 64.31,90.48,67.16,83.34,1
> 40.01,64.29,48.59,59.53,1
> 35.73,59.53,31.44,54.76,1
> 55.73,83.34,60.02,85.72,0
> 52.87,64.29,62.88,69.05,0
> 58.59,71.43,64.31,80.95,0
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NAGOYA University, Japan
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