Matt,
I don't think this is normal behavior. It still may be a memory problem. I
would try to run amelia with a fewer number of variables (you really have
40 variables because of your categorical vars). Get Amelia to work on a
small dataset (say 5 to 10 vars) and add variables incrementally to
identify what is causing the problem.
Ken
At 12:15 PM 5/17/2002 -0500, Matthew Vile wrote:
As a new user to Amelia, I have encountered a couple of
difficulties; if
any of
you have seen the same type of problems and know how to fix them I'd
appreciate
any help you can give.
System: PII @ 300mhz
RAM: 128mb (@60mb available - from Task Manager)
OS: Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381, Service Pack 6)
Dataset: 1555 obs.
32 vars. (14 fully observed, 2 nom(w/ missing) w/ @6 cats. each)
most variables <200 missing, 2 variables @ 50% missing
Setup: ridge prior = 2
AMnds = 5
AMsn = 10
Method: EMis (Amelia for Windows)
Intially, I received the workspace error message so I have set the
max_workspace
variable in the gsrun.cfg to 120mb (which should force the use of virtual
memory).
Now, the program appears to be running until it reaches stage 3. Once the
program window displaces the stage 3 message it ceases to update, and the task
manage reports that the "gauss" and "gauss-dos" applications are
"not
responding."
Is this normal behavior (i.e. should I just wait) or is the program actually
hanging at this phase? If it is, does anyone have any suggestions?
On a related note: the program only allows for 32 characters of information in
the "fully specified" global. Is there anyway that this can be increased? As
it currently stands I have to leave out one of my fully specified variables
because I run out of space on the line.
Thanks in advance for your help.
--
Matthew "ElectricBlooz" Vile
UNO Survey Research Center
http://www.swd.org/mardi/blooz.htm
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