[amelia] A caveat_regarding post imputation!

Prof. King and the rest of the folks of "Amelia" users ... the following note is for the people who have not yet used any post imputation STATA module ever, but are planning to do so with the data set they have created with "Amelia" the note is connection with the STATA imputation module "miest" written by Dr.Kenneth Scheve say we have generated five .csv data set using "Amelia" ... where we put the variables' name like this way "Y AGE EDU x3 x4 x5" ... it's convenient to convert them into STATA data file for working with STATA, therefore we made(converted) them and stored in drive "c", like this ... c:\my1.dta, c:\my2.dta, c:\my3.dta, c:\my4.dta, c:\my5.dta once we got ready with STATA .dta files, ... we wrote the following (Dr. Scheve's "miest" module) in command prompt .miest C:\my probit Y AGE EDU x3 x4 x5, robust nsets(5) iout this will NOT work, though everything looks ABSOLUTELY correct with the command .. the reason behind ... we are using .dta files, by DEFAULT, STATA creates variable's name ONLY in "small case" and therefore it will fail to recognize variable in the above command hope this note will help people not to commit this mistake in future … it took me couple of hours to trace out ...of course, the reason was my STATA illiteracy and not "miest" both “Amelia” and “meist” are great module … I'm personally thankful to both the authors, for writing such programs and making it affordable to the people of the world through internet long live internet! and long live human wisdom! :-) regards, to all __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - Amelia mailing list served by Harvard-MIT Data Center [Un]Subscribe/View Archive: http://lists.hmdc.harvard.edu/?info=amelia