General advise in these cases is to start with a simpler model and add
complications one at the time:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2006/11/my_debugging_ad.html
-- Maarten
--- Christian Wei� <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to estimate the following hierarchical model:
> "xtmixed bh5 beta logtotalassets_org diversification netincome5yr ||
> country: beta propertyrights countryregulation uai stockmarketdev,
> cov(unstructured) || primarysic1digit: beta logtotalassets_org
> industryregulation netincome5yr, cov(unstructured)"
>
> ( the dataset containts about 2000 observations). Unfortunately,
> after several hours and about 400 iterations the model still hasn't
> converged. Is that strong evidence, that something is wrong with the
> model? According to your experience, how much time do your models for
> estimation?
>
> Thank you very much!
> Best regards
> Christian
>
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