I downloaded everything from the "software" page of your website
(
http://gking.harvard.edu/stats.shtml) a couple of days ago to make sure I
had the most recent version. I used the "for windows" option. So far as I
can tell, though, everything is identical to the version I already had
(which was downloaded before June).
Torben
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary King" <king(a)harvard.edu>
To: "Torben Iversen" <iversen(a)fas.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Amelia Listserv" <amelia(a)latte.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: Quick question about Amelia
I'm afraid we have had problems with this before, but I think(!) that it
is fixed in the new version of Amelia for windows. It is fixed in the
underlying Amelia for Gauss code. Have you updated Amelia for windows
since June or so?
In case I'm forgetting something, Ken or James will fill us in...
Sorry for the troubles.
Gary
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Torben Iversen wrote:
> I have used Amelia without problems in the past, so in general I don't
find
> it hard to use. And I feel bad wasting your time
on this. But, OK, I'd
love
> to be able to move on. So here's the info:
>
> Under time series options, I choose the relevant time-series variable
> (AMts=2), the cross-sectional variable (AMcs=1), and I ask to include
the
> dependent variable with a lag (AMlagvs=3).
AMtstep is set to 1(annual
data).
> All other globals are retained at their defaults.
I did try to switch to
EM
> under AMmthd, and at some point I also tried to
change AMempri (though I
> don't think that's possible with time-series). But the same message
about
> names exceeding variables always popped up.
>
> My data is sorted by country and years (14 countries * 31 years = 434
obs).
> I have 27 variables with missingness heavily
concentrated on the
dependent
> variable (there are only 61 observations on
redistribution).
>
> Torben
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary King" <king(a)harvard.edu>
> To: "Torben Iversen" <iversen(a)fas.harvard.edu>
> Cc: "Amelia Listserv" <amelia(a)latte.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 7:46 PM
> Subject: Re: Quick question about Amelia
>
>
> >
> > Sorry for the inelegance (we're working on a new GUI that should make
> > things like this easier). What options are you choosing?
> > Gary
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Torben Iversen wrote:
> >
> > > Gary,
> > >
> > > I tried to use Amelia on our data. The program seems to read the
data
> fine
> > > (right number of variables and observations), and I'm following the
> > > directions for cross-sectional time series. However, when I hit
"run" I
> get
> > > the error message "_AMvarnm has too many variable names to match
each
> > > variable in the data set." What
does that mean? I did not change the
> Amelia
> > > default variable names (var1, var2, ...).
> > >
> > > I'm sure I'm just making a simple mistake, but I can't
figure out
what
> it
> > > is.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have,
> > >
> > > Torben
> > >
> >
>
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