New subject: Quick question about Amelia

29 Sep 2002

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" &lt;king(a)harvard.edu&gt;
 To: "Torben Iversen" &lt;iversen(a)fas.harvard.edu&gt;
 Cc: "Amelia Listserv" &lt;amelia(a)latte.harvard.edu&gt;
 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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