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Input dataset contains double precision data...

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 2:55 pm
by ewancarr
First of all: THANK YOU! runmlwin will literally save me hours and
hours (not to mention the likely RSI caused by repeatedly clicking
through MLwiN's interfaces) :)

I have a question: is there something I can do to prevent MLwiN giving me
the following message each time a runmlwin command is run?

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Otherwise it requires clicking "OK" each time.

Thanks,

Ewan
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PhD Student
CCSR, University of Manchester

Re: Input dataset contains double precision data...

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:14 pm
by ChrisCharlton
To avoid this message you need to convert your variables to have a lower precision before sending them to MLwiN. If this is possible without losing accuracy then the Stata command http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?compress will perform the conversion for you, otherwise you will need to reduce the precision using http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?recast.

Re: Input dataset contains double precision data...

Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:16 pm
by ewancarr
Thanks for the quick reply. I'll try the compress command.

Ewan
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