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Re: st: maximum likelihood


From   Hung-Jen Wang <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: maximum likelihood
Date   Mon, 3 Nov 2003 13:26:30 +0800

Monday, November 3, 2003, 1:18:14 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> I try to use the following example to estimate the maximum likelihood
> estimate, but I got the error message "varlist required". It occurs in
> "quitely replace     = ln(norm(__000001)) ifdied==1" if I use the -set trace
> on- command.

> program myprobit_lf
>         version 8.1
>         args inf xb
>         quietly replace `lnf' = ln(norm(`xb')) if $ML_y1==1
>         quitely replace `lnf' = ln(norm(-`xb')) if $ML_y1==0
> end

It is because of a typo: Instead of

   args inf xb

you should have

   args lnf xb

. Hope it helps.

HJW

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