_EisFac=-2 is not normally harmful, so the first message is ok.
but what do you mean that they didn't work? What was the error message?
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On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Liu wrote:
Hi Dr. King,
My name is Baodong Liu, and I work at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
as an assistant professor of political science. I have used your Ezi for
more than four years, with four publications by using your method of
ecological inference. I would like to thank you for your continuing effort
in furthering research by using aggregate data.
I also would also like to ask you a question about the operation of Ezi. I
was using Memphis 1991 mayoral election data today and ran Ezi on my Window
2000 Profession platform. The file has 245 observations (precincts). I was
able to run Ei1, but whenever I tried Ei2, the screen bombed and
disappeared. I tried to read through your manual and the book to find a
solution, but I failed except that I saw the following message on the
screen before the program was stopped:
"...
Importance sampling failed! Using maximum posterior estimates
<equivalent to _EisFac=-2>.
Simulating fundamental variability..."
After I saw this, I went to configuration function and changed the _EisFac
to -2, but it didn't work. As a matter of fact, I tried -1, 0, and 2. None
of them worked.
Is there any solution to this? If you want, I can send you the datafile.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Baodong Liu
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