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Re: st: bayesmlogit


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: bayesmlogit
Date   Wed, 21 Aug 2013 17:43:38 +0100

A tweak to the code indicating that all varlists should be numeric is
possible. I doubt that many Stata programmers would consider this a
problem.
Nick
[email protected]


On 21 August 2013 17:35, Matthew Baker <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, that was easy! Nothing like reading through email, finding that
> there was a problem with your package, and that it was solved so
> efficiently. But let me ask: is the "variable overflow" issue related
> to bayesmlogit? It doesn't seem to be but I just wanted to be sure.
>
> And thanks Nick!
>
> Matt Baker
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Milena Przheska
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your reply.
>> The command did not return r(2000) after I encoded the variables, so
>> your guess was spot on.
>>
>> It did return an error for variable overflow r(1400), but I know that
>> is a totally different issue.
>>
>> I am relatively new to Stata, so I apologize if I violated some code
>> of conduct or failed to supply appropriate reference in my previous
>> message.
>>
>> In that regard, I would like to supplement my previous message with
>> the reference to the package I used to run the command
>>
>> package bayesmlogit from http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/b
>> Author: Matthew Baker, Hunter College
>>
>> Once again, thank you very much.
>>
>> Best,
>> Milena
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> -bayesmlogit- (SSC) is user-written. Please remember to explain where
>>> user-written programs come from.
>>>
>>> At a guess, your -rand- is a string variable but -bayesmlogit- wants
>>> it to be numeric. If so, use -encode- to produce a numeric variable
>>> with value labels.
>>> Nick
>>> [email protected]
>>>
>>>
>>> On 21 August 2013 16:09, Milena Przheska
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Dear Statalist members,
>>>>
>>>> I got error "no observations" r(2000) after running -bayesmlogit-
>>>>
>>>> I have a data set that contains choices of subjects at 4 separate
>>>> occasions, and a dependent variable - a dichotomous variable.
>>>>
>>>> The data set looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> id           time         prior           y
>>>> 1               1              a            0
>>>> 1               2              a            0
>>>> 1               3              b            1
>>>> 1               4              c            0
>>>> 2               1               c           1
>>>> 2               2               c           0
>>>> 2               3               b           1
>>>> 2               4               a           0
>>>> 3               1               d           0
>>>> 3                2              d           0
>>>> 3                3              a           1
>>>> 3                4              c           1
>>>>
>>>> The commands I ran were
>>>>
>>>> bayesmlogit y, group(time) identifier(id) rand(prior)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> bayesmlogit y, group(id) identifier(id) rand(prior)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Got the same error that there are no observations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone please explain why this error occurs?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I appreciate your help and I thank you all in advance.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Milena Przheska
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> Department of Economics
> Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
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