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Dear Chris, George

I may be pushing my luck here but I am always getting an odd trap message (after estimation) on my 64-bit notebook upon exiting WinBUGS which I am not getting when running/exiting WinBUGS on my 32-bit desktop. I attach the WinBUGS trap message for your reference.

Can you suggest ...

Dear Chris

I put all WinBUGS files (model, data and initial values) right at the top of my C drive to bypass the whole directory structure and ..... WinBUGS ran right away from within Stata and produced the coda - no questions asked. A good clean up of my file directory structure is long overdue ...

Dear Chris

I put the quotes throughout and ran wbscript, wbrun and wbcoda again. I am getting the same result and error message (see attached).

Kind regards
Pierre

Dear Chris

Thanks for keeping interest in my problem. As previously suggested I contacted John Thompson from Leicester University (author of the winbugsfromstata ado suite) and forwarded all the evidence. He indicated and I quote: "We are currently involved in a complete upgrade of these programs ...

Dear Chris, George

This is to confirm that the latest version of runmlwin was installed a couple of weeks ago.

P

Dear Chris

I corrected the syntax in the initial values text file as you suggested. WinBUGS has accepted initial values and it is now running smoothly albeit slowly. Results are similar to those produced by MLwiN. I am not quite sure why this happened but I will update runmlwin to avoid further ...

Dear George

Will do and get back to you shortly.

Pierre

P.S. Attached is the output from Stata (i.e. runmlwin, wbdecode, wbscript, wbrun).

I have conducted a Bayesian analysis of 3-level models of venture capital investment in Stata whereby 2803 VC investment rounds are nested within 966 firms nested within 16 regions.

I used MLwiN (v2.26) on Stata for mcmc estimation (runmlwin) and got interesting results. I now wish to run further ...

Dear George

Many thanks. This does the trick.

P