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Re: st: RE: ml and variable types


From   Rachel <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: ml and variable types
Date   Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:30:12 -0500

Nick,

Thanks for your response. This was also what I thought initially. I've
rechecked my model several times, and as far as I know, it should
converge (at least locally, given the right starting point).  So
there's no more I can do on that point.

On 12/20/06, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
The answer to the first question is No. If this
were compulsory, Stata would have no problem
in detecting any deficiency and throwing you out of -ml-.

Without more detail, even an -ml- expert (not me)
might have difficulty advising here, but a guess
is that your problem is much more likely
to be with the model you are trying to estimate --
you may be trying to fit an elephant to an oak
tree -- than with variable types.

Nick
[email protected]

Rachel

> I'm wondering whether all the variables used in "ml model" equations
> need to be of type double.
>
> All my temporary variables are of type double, but the non-temp
> (external) variables used to calculate xb are floats and bytes.  "ml
> display" is giving me dots in place of the standard errors and/or the
> program seems to stop iterating, so I'm wondering whether the external
> variable types are the problem.

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