somersd error

[spencer keene]

I have just sent the below message to Stata tech support and will update you if they reply.

Hello Stata,


I am running into an issue with somersd.

I am performing an IPD meta-analysis looking at C-index change within studies before combining estimates across.

I ran old code that worked some months ago and has not been changed since. Yet, the error occurred in the same way. Unfortunately the code is too long to share here

The following error is displayed:


tidotforsomersd(): 3499 tidottree() not found
<istmt>: - function returned error


Thank you,


Spencer

[Nick Cox]

My guess is that StataCorp may decline politely to advise on use of what is a community-contributed command by Roger Newson

In any case, there is often little that can be said easily if you are unable or unwilling to provide either a reproducible example or the code that preceded the error.

In this case, the signal is that some of the Mata code needed is not visible.

[spencer keene]

I see. thank you, Nick. The problem is that the command that uses somersd is itself an in-house program that is downloaded using an ado-path that exists on University shared drive.
Still, I will attempt a reproducible example this weekend if I can somehow call somersd in the same way that the in-house program uses it.

Thanks again

[Nick Cox]

OK, but StataCorp technical support can't help you there either.

It's hard to know when commands mysteriously stop working what to suggest. Usually something has changed but the user just doesn't know what it is. A minimal suggestion is to reinstall somersd if you have not done so already.

[spencer keene]

Solution code:

update all, force
ado update snp15_7