RE: st: STATA won't read command

["Mason, Patrick" <pmason@fsu.edu>]

Thanks. I loaded the Word file into STATA's do-file editor and used the editor to write the apostrophes. I saved the file under a different name. It works like a charm. I appreciate the help.

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of Richard Williams [richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 9:43 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu; statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: STATA won't read command

As to why that happened, I am guessing that Word changed the
apostrophes to smart apostrophes, which may look nice when writing
text but will screw you up when trying to write code for programs. In
general, don't use Word for writing programs. Use a text editor or
Stata's do-file editor.

At 09:19 PM 3/6/2014, Sergiy Radyakin wrote:
>Patrick, the answer to your question is 'yes':
>
>clear all
>
>sysuse nlsw88
>rename south region
>
>generate meanwage = .
>by region, sort: gen pid = _n
>
>summarize pid
>
>quietly forvalues i = 1/`r(max)' {
>          generate include = 1 if pid != `i'
>          egen work = mean(wage*include), by(region)
>          replace meanwage = work if pid == `i'
>          drop include work
>}
>
>Just use the correct closing quotes. Stata 13 will indicate that with
>syntax highlighting.
>
>Best regards, Sergiy Radyakin
>
>PS: not sure how your question relates to the earlier posting. Start a
>new thread if not related.
>
>
>On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Mason, Patrick <pmason@fsu.edu> wrote:
> > I use STATA/SE 13.1 for Windows (64 bit x86-64)
> >
> > The code appended below works fine on a small hypothetical
> sample. I manually enter the data, then copy the code from a
> Microsoft Word .doc file and past the commands directly into
> STATA's command window. The commands execute without a problem.
> >
> > I place these same commands inside a .do file. I call the do file
> in STATA and the commands do not work!
> >
> > I get the following message.
> >
> > quietly forvalues i = 1/`r(max)' {
> > invalid syntax
> > r(198);
> >
> > Is there a way to save the .do so that the forvalues command will execute?
> >
> > thanks, plmason
> >
> > generate meanwage = .
> >
> > by region, sort: gen pid = _n
> >
> > summarize pid
> >
> > quietly forvalues i = 1/`r(max)' {
> >          generate include = 1 if pid != `i'
> >          egen work = mean(wage*include), by(region)
> >          replace meanwage = work if pid == `i'
> >          drop include work
> > }
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] on behalf of Z. Liu [zl290@cam.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:45 PM
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Fwd: -cmp- not concave
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've been trying to fit a bivariate tobit model using the user-written
> > command -cmp-. The model looks like this:
> >
> > cmp (equation1: y1 = X1) (equation2: y2 = y1 + X2), indicators(2 2)
> > robust
> >
> > This model doesn't work out. Stata keeps showing 'log pseudolikelihood =
> > 0 (not concave)'. I tried to start with minimum regressors (1-2
> > explanatory variables) in each equation, but the problem remains. I also
> > tried alternative ml options such as - tech(dfp)- and -difficult- but
> > still can't fix it. However, the two tobit equations can be estimated
> > separately, although the Pseudo R2 is quite small (around 5%). As well,
> > the system model
> > can be estimated if I change the two tobit equations into linear
> > equations. Some descriptive statistics of the two dependent variables
> > are as follows:
> >
> > y1: Percentiles: 1% (0), 25% (0), 50% (23.57), 99% (6127.14); mean
> > (365.00); SD (1186.90); Skewness (7.14); Kurtosis (71.23)
> >
> > y2: Percentiles: 1% (0), 50% (0), 75% (0), 90% (78.10), 99% (1128.53);
> > mean (61.29); SD (401.82); Skewness (13.27); Kurtosis (217.49)
> >
> > Anybody out there knows what might be the problem? Any advice or
> > suggestions
> > would be appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.
> >
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >
> >
> > Leo
> >
> >
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