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Java(TM) Platform SE binary has stopped working #12

Closed rvdlaar8 closed 8 years ago

rvdlaar8 commented 8 years ago

Dear, Tau argus team,

At beginning I read micro and meta data using tau argus 4.1.2 build 1. When specified table I get error, that tau argus are closing and do not make any calculations.

In attachment I add print screen how look window before select compute table and java error.

Maybe you can explain why it happens?

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With best wishes,

Ilona Kallione

ppdewolf commented 8 years ago

I’m not sure where the Java error is coming from, but the specification of the dominance rule might be the reason. You specify that the largest 80 contributors of a cell should not contribute more than 90% of the cell total… (n=80 and k=90 in your settings). That is a very unrealistic approach.

Usually the n is 1, 2 or 3 at the most. I’ll have to check the code, but I can imagine that taking n=80 was not foreseen and might lead to memory and display problems causing the Java error.

So I suggest to take the n at most 3.

Actually I think what you intend to use is two dominance rules. The first is (1,80)-dominance (largest < 80%) and the second is (2,90)-dominance (largest two < 90%). In that case you have to specify

n k
Ind-1 1 80
Ind-2 2 90

Please have a look at the manual how to specify the dominance rule. For background information on the dominance rule I suggest the Wiley book “Statistical Disclosure Control” (2012), ISBN 978-1-119-97815-2.