st: ML estimation and gradient

["Francesca Foliano" <francescafoliano@hotmail.co.uk>]

Dear all,

I would like to know why, when using maximum likelihood estimation in Stata, 
 the gradient in the last iteration is often numerically different from 
zero whereas it should be theoretically equal to zero.

Thanks.
Francesca

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