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st: Nonlinear Least Squares: coefficient reported, Std.Err. not. Why?


From   Albrecht Bl�si <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Nonlinear Least Squares: coefficient reported, Std.Err. not. Why?
Date   Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:15:50 +0100

I tried to estimate non-linear least squares, but do not understand why
for one of the variables ("gamma") a coefficient is reported but no
standard errors, t-values etc (see regression output below). Something
wrong with my data? Or a sign that the results did not converge?

Thank you for (probably basic) advice!
Albrecht


 nl nonlinear  ln_scPr, nolog
(obs = 1774)

      Source |       SS       df       MS            Number of obs
=      1774
-------------+------------------------------         F(  2,  1771) =
3519.79
       Model |  542.900573     2  271.450286         Prob > F      =
0.0000
    Residual |  136.581473  1771  .077121103         R-squared     =
0.7990
-------------+------------------------------         Adj R-squared =
0.7988
       Total |  679.482045  1773  .383238604         Root MSE      =
.2777069
                                                     Res. dev.     =
485.7322
(nonlinear)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     ln_scPr |      Coef.   Std. Err.      t    P>|t|     [95% Conf.
Interval]
-------------+----------------------------------------------------------------

       alpha |  -.2102366   .0025193   -83.45   0.000    -.2151777
-.2052956
        beta |  -.0284364   .0082815    -3.43   0.001    -.0446789
-.0121938
       gamma |   2270.781          .        .       .
.           .
       delta |   8.671386   .1372368    63.19   0.000     8.402223
8.940549
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

* Parameter delta taken as constant term in model & ANOVA table
 (SE's, P values, CI's, and correlations are asymptotic approximations)



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