[amelia] FW: amelia

Dr. King, I am a graduate student working on a paper and trying to use Amelia. Emailing you was my last resort, as I have not been able to move forward past some problems I am having. I read through the pdf file several times, and the help menus, but things are not working out. I have cross secitonal time series data with a number of missing observations for different variables. When I try to run the imputations, I get a message stating there are insufficient observations for estimation, and that I need to use prior or increase prior if already used. I tried to increase the prior (AMempri) to more than zero, but the program states that the AMfully is not properly defined and that I have more defined variables than there really are, despite the fact that I specified only 2 or 3 out of 26 variables that have full values. For some reason the program changes the AMfully definitions on its own. When I try to specify the AMfully again, it tells me I need to define a different value for AMempri. It is almost a circular problem. I am sorry to bother you, but I have run out of resources on my own and nobody in my department seems to have used Amelia or if they did, they never had such problem. Where should I look next? Thank you. Regards, Dasha