Strange error message after the -brant- command

[Dimitrije]

Hi Statlisters,

When, after running my ordered logit model in Stata 15 and Stata 14 (I have both versions), I type -brant, detail-, I get the following error message: command _rm_matrix_noomitted is unrecognized. r(199)

Does anyone know what seems to be trouble here? Many thanks in advance!

[Richard Williams]

Make sure Stata is up to date. Also, there are different versions of brant around. The most current version is

. which brant
c:\ado\plus\b\brant.ado
*! version 4.0.0 2017-08-23 | long freese | stata 15 parameter naming fix

There is an ancient version of brant on SSC. Do not use it! If you have it, uninstall it, and use the version that is part of spost13.

findit spost13_ado

If problems persist write back.

[Nick Cox]

I see nothing strange about this. Stata is telling you that brant (a community-contributed command, which you are asked to explain) calls up a command _rm_matrix_noomitted which you evidently have not yet installed from (e.g.)

net describe spost13_ado, from(http://www.indiana.edu/~jslsoc/stata)

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