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Re: st: upper limit on fweights? overflowing into missing values?


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: upper limit on fweights? overflowing into missing values?
Date   Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:08:52 +0100

I'd suggest documenting your problems with a reproducible example and
sending Stata tech support.


Nick
[email protected]


On 21 July 2013 21:55, László Sándor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> in Stata/MP 12.1 I am getting missing values with using -pwcorr- with
> -fweights- though the feature works fine with other data or if I scale
> my weights down. Is it possible to simply have too large fweights,
> e.g. if they cannot be of type -long- anymore?
>
> If so, why doesn't Stata warn me about this?
>
> I vaguely remember some Statalist of Stata blog discussion of this,
> but I could not even Google it up, and Stata still did not warn me…
>
> Actually, why didn't Stata complain that I did not have integer
> fweights if obviously the variable wasn't of type byte, int or long?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
>
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