zscore06 not calculating waz06, bmiz06 and whz06 except haz06

[Oscar Divala]

Hi
I am using Stata 13 for Windows 7 and i have run the zscore06 package. But when i run the zscore06 command it is not calculating waz06, bmiz06 and whz06 except haz06. What can be the problem? Please help.

Thanks,
Oscar

[Clyde Schechter]

-zscore06- is not an official Stata command--it is user-written and available on SSC. In order to troubleshoot this problem, one would need to see a sample of your input data, and the exact command you gave, and the exact response that Stata gave you.

Please be sure to use -dataex- to post samples of your input data and output data. (-dataex- is also a user written command. -ssc install dataex-, then follow the instructions in -help dataex-.) To be sure you show exactly the command you gave, do not retype it: copy it from the Results window or your log file and paste it into the Forum editor.

[Oscar Divala]

Thanks Clyde,
Here is a command i used:

. zscore06, a(age_mo) s(sex) h(height) w(weight) female(0)male(1)o(edema)oyes(0)ono(1)

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input int age_mo byte sex double(height weight) long edema double(haz06 waz06 whz06 bmiz06)
24 0   76 10.405 1 -3.02 . . .
24 1 86.2 11.225 1   -.3 . . .
24 1 82.4 10.265 1 -1.55 . . .
23 0   77   9.24 1 -2.68 . . .
23 0 85.4 11.775 1  -.04 . . .
23 1 82.2 11.325 1 -1.58 . . .
23 0 78.4   9.45 1 -2.24 . . .
23 0 83.2   9.45 1  -.73 . . .
23 0 81.2 11.615 1 -1.36 . . .
23 1   81 11.475 1 -1.98 . . .
end
label values sex gender
label def gender 0 "Female", modify
label def gender 1 "Male", modify
label values edema yesno
label def yesno 1 "No", modify

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Oscar:
as far as I can get it, it seems that you have missing values for all the observations in -waz06-, -whz06- and -bmiz06- variables.
If this were the case, no wonder that Stata does not give you anything in return for those variables.

[Oscar Divala]

Carlo,
The point is that when i run -zscore06, a(age_mo) s(sex) h(height) w(weight) female(0)male(1)o(edema)oyes(0)ono(1)-. Stata is giving me missing values in -waz06-, -whz06- and -bmiz06- variables except in -haz06 variable.

Thanks,
Oscar

[Carlo Lazzaro]

Oscar:
the following code (oedema specification seems to be the problem) seems to do what you're after:

zscore06, a(age_mo) s(sex) h(height) w(weight) female(0)male(1)oyes(0)ono(1)

[Oscar Divala]

Thanks Carlo,
It has worked.

Oscar

[Mat Jock]

I don't think zscore06 is a correct command.
It has many typos in the help file and the ado file.

And it cannot compute correctly,

. set obs 1
Number of observations (_N) was 0, now 1.

. gen age=17*12

. gen sex=1

. gen height=170

. gen weight=60

. zscore06,a(age) s(sex) h(height) w(weight)

Z-scores (haz06, waz06, bmiz06 and whz06) succesfully calculated
*** note 1: 99 indicates that height, weight or age were out of the reference value range
*** note 2: no zscores are calculated for children with missing age

. sum *06

    Variable |        Obs        Mean    Std. dev.       Min        Max
-------------+---------------------------------------------------------
       haz06 |          1          99           .         99         99
       waz06 |          1          99           .         99         99
       whz06 |          1          99           .         99         99
      bmiz06 |          0

and when you look at its correlated file, there are so many missing values