RE: st: RE: "cluster(): too many variables" in ivreg2 despite latest version?

["Schaffer, Mark E" <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>]

JZ,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jen Zhen
> Sent: 17 October 2013 13:53
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: RE: "cluster(): too many variables" in ivreg2 despite latest
> version?
> 
> Dear Mark,
> thanks a lot for your reply!
> 
> (1) Here is what Stata reports:
> 
> . which ivreg2, all
> C:\Users\UserJZ\ado\plus\i\ivreg2.ado
> *! ivreg2 3.1.07  28Jul2013
> *! authors cfb & mes
> *! see end of file for version comments
> 
> (2) I downloaded them from here:
> http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s425401.html
> There it says: Date of revision: 28 Jul 2013.
> 
> (3) Good point about the livreg2.mlib.
> Now I have downloaded that too, i.e. opened the text in the browser, copied the
> full text into a Notepad file and saved that to my Desktop.

That's not going to work, I think.  The mlib file is a binary file.  Putting through a browser and text editor the way you've done will probably corrupt it.

--Mark

> Like with the hlp files, I have then changed the ending from txt into mlib and
> saved in my PLUS/l directory.
>  This seems to have had an effect in that I now get a different error message:
> 
> . ivreg2 depvar controlvar (endogreg = instrument), cluster(dimension1
> dimension2)
> struct ms_vcvorthog undefined
> (763 lines skipped)
> (error occurred while loading ivreg2.ado) r(3000);
> 
> So presumably I'm now a good step closer, albeit not completely there yet?
> 
> Thank you so much,
> JZ
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Schaffer, Mark E <M.E.Schaffer@hw.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> > JZ,
> >
> > Re: (1), exactly what does -which ivreg2, all- report?  When you say you
> downloaded the "2013 versions", from where you did download them and how?
> And have you also downloaded the Mata library file livreg2.mlib?
> >
> > --Mark
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-
> >> statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Jen Zhen
> >> Sent: 17 October 2013 13:01
> >> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> >> Subject: st: "cluster(): too many variables" in ivreg2 despite latest version?
> >>
> >> Dear listers,
> >>
> >> (1) When specifying two-dimensional clustering in -ivreg2-,
> >> ivreg2 depvar controlvar (endogreg = instrument), cluster(dimension1
> >> dimension2), I always get the error "cluster(): Too many variables specified".
> >>
> >> Many earlier posts on the topic on Statalist suggest that this
> >> problem should be solved by ensuring to have at least the 2010
> >> version of -ivreg2-. While my Stata cannot be updated automatically,
> >> I have downloaded 2013 versions of both
> >> ivreg2 and of ranktest, and I have also checked -which ivreg2, all-
> >> that I currently have only that 1 version of the ado file in my PLUS ado file
> path.
> >> Nonetheless the problem persists. Would anyone know what else I could try?
> >> Does ivreg2 maybe require any other ado files that might also need
> >> manual updating?
> >>
> >> (2) Nichols 2007 recommends to have at least 50 different clusters
> >> and Angrist & Pischke similarly suggests to have at least 42. So I'm
> >> taking this into account when choosing on which dimensions to cluster
> >> my standard errors. What I'm wondering though is: Should I also make
> >> sure to have no or few clusters with fewer than ... observations? In
> >> particular, with the way I am currently clustering, I have a few
> >> clusters with just 2 observations, although 95% of my clusters have
> >> more than 17. With 2 way clustering, any such requirement would
> presumably need to be independently satisfied for each of my 2 dimensions?
> >>
> >> Thank you so much and kind regards, JZ
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