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Re: st: system limit exceeded


From   Ed Blackburne <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: system limit exceeded
Date   Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:42:22 -0500

I have fixed my problem ---

I was running a test program named, ahhh, test.do

It should not cause a problem, but by simply changing the name to a
nonstandard command, everything is ok.

Without worrying about this much more, I assume the problem was that ml
holds the name of the calling program to, for example, testing.do,
everything worked.

Besides saying "Don't do that," does Stata know why this happened?

Otherwise, lesson learned!

On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:10 -0500, Ed Blackburne wrote:
> I ran into a new error and I cannot trace it because I think the problem
> is caused by an ml proceedure.
> 
> I am running a ml model d0 estimation and this is my output:
> 
> initial:       log likelihood = -1720.5831
> alternative:   log likelihood = -1685.3319
> rescale:       log likelihood = -801.15134
> Iteration 0:   log likelihood = -801.15134  (not concave)
> Iteration 1:   log likelihood =  193.03404  (not concave)
> Iteration 2:   log likelihood =  813.56394  
> Iteration 3:   log likelihood =  974.59715  
> Iteration 4:   log likelihood =  975.55101  
> Iteration 5:   log likelihood =  975.55103  
> system limit exceeded - see manual
> r(1000);
> 
> ************************************************
> The model is converging correctly because the last iteration
> log-likelihood is the same as the true model from regress:
> ************************************************
> 
> 
> . regress c y
> 
>       Source |       SS       df       MS              Number of obs =
> 815
> -------------+------------------------------           F(  1,   813)
> =       .
>        Model |  3249.51685     1  3249.51685           Prob > F      =
> 0.0000
>     Residual |  4.35498339   813  .005356683           R-squared     =
> 0.9987
> -------------+------------------------------           Adj R-squared =
> 0.9987
>        Total |  3253.87184   814  3.99738555           Root MSE
> =  .07319
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>            c |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
> Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
>            y |   .9982267   .0012816   778.86   0.000      .995711
> 1.000742
>        _cons |  -.3667309   .0149193   -24.58   0.000    -.3960157
> -.3374461
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> . di e(ll)
> 975.55103
> 
> 
> Note this is a trivial example to replicate the error.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> 
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