Re: st: Trouble with maxcnt command as part of prvalue calculations

[Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>]

prvalue calls _pepred.ado. The code for that includes the following:

    *check if `maxcnt' specified to acceptable value
    local max_i = `maxcnt'  /* how should this be set */
    if `max_i' < 0 | `max_i' > 30 {
        di in r "maxcnt() value not allowed"
        exit 198
    }

If you have this desperate need to go above 30 I suppose you could 
tweak the code. I can't find my copy of Long and Freese's book but 
maybe it explains why they set a limit of 30.

At 03:30 PM 8/5/2013, Keith Naughton wrote:
> The model is a ZINB with a dependent variable range from 0 to 95.
>
> prvalue, x(party=1 retdlost=0 srty=12 hac=0 lead=0 cch=0 crnk=0 
> cardinal=0 rankcard=0 reciprocal=.2) max(31)
> maxcnt() value not allowed
> r(198);
>
>
> Keith Naughton
> Ph.D. candidate
> Sol Price School of Public Policy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com>
> Date: Monday, August 5, 2013 11:35 am
> Subject: Re: st: Trouble with maxcnt command as part of prvalue  calculations
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu, statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
>
> > Do you want prcounts or prvalue? This is not the syntax for
> > prcounts. See the help file. If still not clear, please cut and
> > paste your exact syntax and the error Stata is giving you.
> >
> > At 01:10 PM 8/5/2013, Keith Naughton wrote:
> > >Apologies --
> > >
> > >The syntax is:
> > >
> > >prcounts, x(party=1 srty=12 hac=0 lead=0 cch=0 crnk=0 cardinal=0
> > rankcard=0  reciprocal=.2) maxcnt(30)
> > >
> > >Keith Naughton
> > >Ph.D. candidate
> > >Sol Price School of Public Policy
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: Nick Cox <njcoxstata@gmail.com>
> > >Date: Monday, August 5, 2013 10:46 am
> > >Subject: Re: st: Trouble with maxcnt command as part of prvalue
> > calculations>To: "statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu"
> > <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>>
> > >> This appears to refer to
> > >>
> > >> package spost9_ado from http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata
> > >>
> > >> but there is no -maxcnt- command in that package. The syntax
> > suggests>> that you are referring to the option of that name in the
> > -prvalue-
> > >> command, except that the syntax you quote does not name -
> > maxcnt()- at
> > >> all.
> > >>
> > >> The authors of this package have not been active on Statalist in
> > >> recent years, if ever. Users of this package may be able to help
> > out,>> but if not I'd approach the authors directly.
> > >>
> > >> Nick
> > >> njcoxstata@gmail.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 5 August 2013 18:36, Keith Naughton <knaughto@usc.edu> wrote:
> > >> > I am having trouble with the maxcnt(n) command as part of the
> > >> spot9 suite from J. Scott Long for Stata 11  prvalue command.
> > >> >
> > >> > I am using Stata 11.0 for Windows.
> > >> >
> > >> > I am working on a zero-inflation (ZINB) model where the dependent
> > >> variable counts range from 0 to 95.  Using the following code:
> > >> prvalue, x(party=1 retdlost=0 srty=12 hac=0 lead=0 cch=0 crnk=0
> > >> cardinal=0 rankcard=0 reciprocal=.2) max(40).
> > >> >
> > >> > I receive the message:  "maxcnt() value not allowed r(198)"
> > >> >
> > >> > The problem is I need to calculate for counts above 30.
> > >> >
> > >> > Any suggestions?
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