I can't say much about running this on a Mac, but you might have a
different version of stata file than we support. The easiest way around
the problem is to write out an ascii (text) data set from stata and read
it into Amelia. We wrote the text input and so we know it works; for
other data files, we use a public domain data transfer package.
Gary
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Strom C. Thacker wrote:
Hello,
I'm having some problems reading data into Amelia. When I try to
read a Stata file (.dta), it tells me:
Error: Program was unable to read file contents
Please check instructions to make sure input is of correct type
When I try to read it in text format, it just shuts down/crashes (the
program, not the operating system).
I'm a Mac user, so I'm trying this on Virtual PC (though I've tried
it on a PC down the hall and had the same problems).
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Strom