Actually this message is not about which variables are fully observed. It
usually indicates there is something wrong with the data or at least that
portion of the dataset being used in the initial calculations.
Did you try setting the AMstart global to "2" rather than the default?
Also check and make sure that you have not included data for which there is
perfect linear dependence between some group of variables.
Ken
At 03:53 PM 2/28/2004, Jose Antonio Pena Merino wrote:
OK, the program is running now, I think I was asking
way too much by
including too many variables and asking it to keep all the ordinal and
nominal as such.
However, even if it is running it keeps returning the following message:
Iteration Number:
sweep: elements of m cannot be zero
Currently active call: SWEEP [79]
I define those variables which contain full information already, but it
looks like Amelia keeps detecting one variable with full information. In
order to detect which one was it I kept adding each variable to the list
of fullys, but all of them were detected as non-fully. So I really do not
know why I keep getting the same message. In sum, there is no other
variable besides those already defined as fully for which m=0 (that is,
with no missing values)
Thanks for clarifying this for me
Yours
Jose Merino