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| From | Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> |
| To | "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu" <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu> |
| Subject | Re: st: ice "variable not found" |
| Date | Thu, 6 Jun 2013 08:54:15 +0100 |
You can -set trace on- to see _where_ the problem occurs. Nick njcoxstata@gmail.com On 6 June 2013 07:31, Nick Chandler-Klein <nickck@uw.edu> wrote: > I'm running ice to impute data with the following command: > > ice `varlist1' `varlist2', m(10) conditional(`varlist2' : condition) > sav(imputed.dta, replace) persist > > It begins to impute (gets two "dots" into the first imputation) and > then stops with the error "variable __00003T not found" > > So ice is calling one of its tempvars but it can't find it. Since the > variable has an in-program name I don't really have a way of tracing > the problem. > > Any tips here? How do I go about troubleshooting this? If it helps, > when I instead run > > ice `varlist1', m(10) sav(imputed.dta, replace) persist > > it runs fine and goes through all the imputations. Is there something > weird I should be looking for in varlist2? Or does adding conditionals > generally lead to these sorts of problems? > > Thanks > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/resources/statalist-faq/ * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/