On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Tom <tommedema@gmail.com> wrote:
> Insofar noone has explained why the computation is unsuccessful. It'd
> be especially helpful if someone could explain why less precision
> would allow the maximizer to do it's job.
Well I don't know but one direction to check is that that is a huge
dataset. So try randomly subsampling down to, say 10% and see if that
works. Maybe you're running into some weird memory or matrix size
problem. Usually Stata would appropriately whine, but who knows.
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