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RE: st: R: variable not found?
From
Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To
"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
Subject
RE: st: R: variable not found?
Date
Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:42:17 +0100
If you think that, send the dataset and your .do file to Stata tech support.
(If you help your wife with homework, who gets what grade? No, don't answer that.)
Nick
[email protected]
Paul Burkander
In my attempt at brevity, I didn't note that the variables are turned
to lowercase when pasted, and we were running the command with the
correct case. And the error is actually "regressor group not found"
My apologies for the erroneous description.
This seems like a bug. It's replicated in stata 12.
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 6:01 AM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Whatever the problem is, that will not solve it.
>
> -format- changes display format only; it doesn't otherwise change the status of any variable, especially its kind, type or storage characteristics.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Christian Otchia
>
> You should format the variable after pasting in Stata 11.
>
> Try this:
>
> format %6.1g GROUP
>
> test GROUP
>
>
> Paul Burkander
>
>> 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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