Hi Everybody,
I am running a multiple correspondence analysis on my data using the mca command. For this I have around 30-40k firms, each of which has several observations. In the analysis I am mapping the firms and their distance to an overarching category which can vary from observation to observation within each firm. I am essentially planning on using the coordinates of firms later on to calculate a distance to certain broader categories which are theoretically interesting to me (this is why I am running this on such a large sample, not to actually derive anything from the plot). However, when trying to run the command, I get the following error message:
I understand that the mca is creating a numlist that gets too long due to the amount of data I am working with. Does anybody have any suggestions/ideas on how to deal with this? Is there any way around this?
My apologies for not posting a clear data example but given that the size of the sample seems to be the problem, that did not seem feasible.
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks
J
I am running a multiple correspondence analysis on my data using the mca command. For this I have around 30-40k firms, each of which has several observations. In the analysis I am mapping the firms and their distance to an overarching category which can vary from observation to observation within each firm. I am essentially planning on using the coordinates of firms later on to calculate a distance to certain broader categories which are theoretically interesting to me (this is why I am running this on such a large sample, not to actually derive anything from the plot). However, when trying to run the command, I get the following error message:
Code:
invalid numlist has too many elements r(123);
My apologies for not posting a clear data example but given that the size of the sample seems to be the problem, that did not seem feasible.
I'd appreciate any help. Thanks
J
