On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:54 AM, <kirin_guess@yahoo.com.tw> wrote:
> In addition, I found that the estimates returned by “ml max, search(on)”
> sometimes were
> quite different from the estimates returned by “ml max, search(off)”.
That suggests that your likelihood function has multiple maxima. The
standard algorithms are designed for likelihood functions with a
single maximum, so in principle it would, in that case, not matter
which starting values you used. This is a serious problem and I don't
know an easy solution to that problem.
-- Maarten
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