7 Dec
2002
7 Dec
'02
11:52 p.m.
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Diogo L Pinheiro wrote:
Dear Dr. King, I have a 55x17 TSCS data set with about
40 variables. The
model I intend to run afterwards involves using dummy variables for
countries and time. When I use Amelia with all these dummies, the
program will disappear a few seconds after I hit run (i get the screen
Amelia Begins, and then it all disapears). I've tried including the
dummies both manually and by setting amusecs=1 and amusets=1 and setting
it as a nominal variable. I've got a AMD 1.2 Ghz computer with 256 mb of
RAM. Is ther anything I can do? (I've set the max_workspace do different
values, from 100 do 200, and I always get the same.)
if you're using the features for TSCS variables, then you may have an
enormous number of variables. the number of parmaters in Amelia goes up
fast in the number of variables, and so this may be the problem. I
suggest (in addition to counting exactly how many variables you are
implicitly using) you try it with a small number of variables, get that to
work, and then gradually increase.
Also, another problem that I often run into is that
sometimes I will set
Amfully correctly, and when I start to run Amelia, I get a message
saying that Amfully is not properly defined. After I get that message I
go back to the AMfully screen and for some reason the values there are
different from the ones I entered. I found that that happens to most
fields after getting the error message, and so I have to reset all the
values. Are there any solutions for that? By the way, I use the windows
version. Thanks Diogo Pinheiro
Amelia for windows works by checking all the global values and resetting
any that are invalid. So that's a feature, or at least it was by design,
and not really a bug. Tho I see your point..
Gary
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