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st: Re: SUR with STATA


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: SUR with STATA
Date   Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:05:04 -0600

The -isure- option on -sureg- causes it iterate over the disturbance covariance
matrix, otherwise it uses a two-step estimator (see [R]sureg).

You could use the -nolog- option so that the iteration steps are not displayed,
or -set more off- so Stata will not pause.

hope this helps,
Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Apostolos Ballas" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 9:49 AM
Subject: st: SUR with STATA


> Dear list members,
>
> I have just started using Stata so it quite possible that I am doing
> something wrong.
>
> I want to evaluate a system of equations using SUR. I did not program the
> equations directly but rather I used the menu system of v. 8. I discovered
> that it is very, very slow to converge and I also found it quite irritating
> that it paused to inform me about the convergence criterion. What am I
> doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance.
>
> Apostolos Ballas
>

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