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Hi, I was emailing you the data file. However before I did I saved it in a different name and tried opening it again. For some reason it now opens in MLwiN so I'm not sure what was going wrong but at least I can open it now.

Hi,

I am sorry to keep posting I really don't seem to understand how MLwiN works.

My problem is that I have a dataset from Stata with 32,265 observations and 138 variables when i try to read it into MLwiN I just get the error message "Not enough columns to load data(RSTA)" I know that someone has ...

Thank you, there are only seven countries but I have nearly 3000 primary sampling units. So I will try and create a smaller country variable and see what happens.

I realised this wont work as my country variable is already 1 - 7.

I am so sorry, I don't really understand column length, as you can ...

Oh yes, I am so sorry I am trying to plot the residuals. I don't know why I wrote regression. Is it possible to do this with residuals. The way I know to plot residuals is on the special residual tab.

I tried doing it using the advice above and it says that my column lengths are not the same and ...

Hi,

I have been asked to produce colour coded regression plots so that each country can be distinguished from another. I have 7 countries and they are my highest sorted level, although in my model they are included as a fixed effect. I have two levels, individuals within primary sampling units ...