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Re: st: qnorm


From   Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: qnorm
Date   Mon, 5 Mar 2012 11:15:51 -0500

Thank you.  That worked perfectly.

Best,
Alan

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Maarten Buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have heard this error before, and in those cases it has gone away
> after typing -ssc install hangroot, replace-. It appears that
> -adoupdate- did not recognize the new version of hangroot that is
> present on SSC.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Alan Neustadtl <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Thank you for pointing us to -margdistfit- and -hangroot- from the SSC
>> archives.  Unfortunately I encountered an error when running your
>> example.  Using the code below (copied from your posting) I get an
>> error (shown below the program code):
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> reg mpg
>> margdistfit, hangroot name(hangr)
>>
>> varlist required when hangroot is not preceded by
>> betafit, paretofit, lognfit, weibullfit, gammafit,
>> gumbelfit, invgammafit, invgaussfit, dagumfit,
>> smfit, gb2fit, fiskfit, or gevfit
>> and these models need to be estimated without covariates
>> r(100);
>>
>> I am using version 1.2.0 13Dec2011 of margdistfit and used -adoupdate-
>> to update my user written programs.
>>
>> The following example from the -hangroot- help file produces the same error:
>>
>> preserve
>> set seed 12345
>> drop _all
>> set obs 500
>> gen x = runiform() < .5
>> gen y = -2 + 4*x + rnormal()
>> regress y x
>> margdistfit, hangroot(jitter(5))
>> restore
>>
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Best,
>> Alan
>>

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