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

[László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com>]

Hi,
If you care, here is an example that silently produces missing values.
I notified Stata Support.

input y x fw
2 1 2147483621
1 2 2147483621
end
de
pwcorr y x [fw=fw]
exit

Thanks,

Laszlo

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd suggest documenting your problems with a reproducible example and
> sending Stata tech support.
>
>
> Nick
> njcoxstata@gmail.com
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> On 21 July 2013 21:55, László Sándor <sandorl@gmail.com> 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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