Re: st: RE: Mata optimize: does moptimize_result_coefs(M) really work? CORRECTION

[Tirthankar Chakravarty <tirthankar.chakravarty@gmail.com>]

A reproducible example of what Jeremy is talking about can be had by
taking the example from the [M], pg. 616:
****************************************
clear*
sysuse auto, clear
mata:
// mata drop linregeval()
function linregeval(transmorphic M, real rowvector b, real colvector lnf)
{
real colvector p1, p2
real colvector y1

p1 = moptimize_util_xb(M, b, 1)
p2 = moptimize_util_xb(M, b, 2)
y1 = moptimize_util_depvar(M, 1)

lnf = ln(normalden(y1:-p1, 0, sqrt(p2)))
}
M = moptimize_init()
moptimize_init_evaluator(M, &linregeval())
moptimize_init_depvar(M, 1, "mpg")
moptimize_init_eq_indepvars(M, 1, "weight foreign")
moptimize_init_eq_indepvars(M, 2, "")
moptimize(M)
moptimize_result_coefs(M)  // chokes here.
moptimize_result_eq_coefs(M)
end
****************************************
There is a discrepancy here between the pdf manual and -mhelp
moptimize_result_coefs-. Whereas the latter includes references to
both -moptimize_result_coefs()- and -moptimize_result_eq_coefs()-, in
the pdf help, the functionality of -moptimize_result_eq_coefs()- is
subsumed into -moptimize_result_coefs()-, and only the latter finds
mention. And yet in the example above, it is
-moptimize_result_eq_coefs()- that actually functions. I believe
things are in a state of flux here.

T


2010/7/8 Prieger, James <James.Prieger@pepperdine.edu>:
>  Sorry, the question should have read:
>
> The Mata manual (M-5, page 605) says that the command
>
> moptimize_result_coefs(M)
>
> can be used to post results after optimization. However,
> 1) it doesn't seem to work, and
> 2) the Stata Do-file Editor doesn't seem to think it is a command,
> either (i.e., the Editor doesn't put it in blue type).
>
> Does anyone know if this is an error in the Mata manual?
> N.b. the closely related command "moptimize_result_eq_coefs(M)" _does_
> work, so I guess my question is more academic/beta-testing than anything
> else.
>
> James Prieger
> Associate Professor
> Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
>
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> James
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> Subject: st: Mata optimize: does moptimize_result_coefs(M) really work?
>
> The Mata manual (M-5, page 605) says that the command
>
> moptimize_result_eq_coefs(M)
>
> can be used to post results after optimization. However,
> 1) it doesn't seem to work, and
> 2) the Stata Do-file Editor doesn't seem to think it is a command,
> either (i.e., the Editor doesn't put it in blue type).
>
> Does anyone know if this is an error in the Mata manual?
> N.b. the closely related command "moptimize_result_eq_coefs(M)" _does_
> work, so I guess my question is more academic/beta-testing than anything
> else.
>
> James Prieger
> Associate Professor
> Pepperdine University School of Public Policy
>
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