[amelia] _AMvarnm error message

I am getting the following error message when trying to run amelia for windows: _AMvarnm has too many variable names to match each variable in the dataset. Delete variable names, or set _AMvarnm=. for default variable names (default = var1 var2 ... ). Amelia for windows does not allow me to specify the _AMvarnm value, as far as I can tell. Have narrowed my dataset down to 20 variables, 2 of which I am identifying as ordinal (-1, 0, 1 for one of them 0, 1, 2, 3 for the other). It is a TCSC data set with 15 countries, 39 years, N = 585. 9 variables are fully specified, remainder missing bet. 30 and 90 observations. any suggestions? I know the suggestion has been made in other situations to work with a smaller data set. Does that mean eliminating fully specified variables helps, or just that I should try eliminating variables which are missing data? Thanks, Marc Rosenblum Assistant Professor of Political Science University of New Orleans - amelia mailing list served by Harvard-MIT Data Center List Address: amelia(a)latte.harvard.edu Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.hmdc.harvard.edu/?info=amelia