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Re: st: error message in biprobit


From   "Gandelman, Nestor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: error message in biprobit
Date   Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:15:51 -0300

Thanks again.

"Marc F. Bellemare" ha escrito:

> Hi Nestor:
>
> Actually, if you type -help biprobit-, you can see that -biprobit-
> accommodates the maximize options (generally used with the -ml- commands),
> so that you can probably specify new starting values. Sorry for not having
> checked that when I answered your question. From my very limited
> experience, however, the only time I had the "unfeasible starting values"
> message, it was because there was something I had specified incorrectly.
>
> Marc
>
> At 10:40 AM 11/26/2004 -0300, you wrote:
> >That's what I thought but I wondered if there is a way to change the initial
> >values used by biprobit (it doesn't seem to be such an option in the command).
> >I guess from you answer that there is not.
> >Many thanks, Nestor
> >
> >"Marc F. Bellemare" ha escrito:
> >
> > > The problem is that the initial values that Stata plugs into your
> > > likelihood function are not feasible. My hunch is that you'll have to use
> > > the -ml- set of commands and program a bivariate probit yourself so as to
> > > be able to tweak the algorithm so that (i) it has feasible initial values;
> > > and (ii) converges.
> > >
> > > I hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Marc
> > >
> > > At 05:58 PM 11/25/2004 -0300, you wrote:
> > > >Dear statlisters,
> > > >I'm estimating several bivariate probit model using the biprobit
> > > >command.
> > > >In some of them I recieve the follwing error message:
> > > >
> > > >"initial values not feasible"
> > > >
> > > >Does this mean that I can't estimate those models?
> > > >Does anybody know how this can be solved?
> > > >
> > > >Thanks,
> > > >                         Nestor
> > > >
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> Cornell University
> Ithaca, NY 14853-7801
> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mfb24
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