Re: st: infiniy

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

At 16:21 16/10/02 +0200, you wrote:
> Hello! I want to make a regresion by maximum likelihood estimation, the
> function has included a join cumulative distribution fuction.
>
> so, i give to program the follow instruction:
>
> binorm(h,k,p) as in the manual of stata.
>
> My problem is that h = infinity (Math) and I do not know how i can give
> this instruction.
>
> Could anyone help me?
A possible fix is to use the "magic number" 1e300 (ten to the power of 
300), commonly used in the Stata community as a proxy for infinity. For 
instance, you might type

. disp binorm(1e300,1e300,0.5)
1

. disp binorm(1e300,0,0.5)
.5


I hope this helps.

Roger


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