Re: st: capture number of -xtmixed- iterations?

[Richard Goldstein <richgold@ix.netcom.com>]

Some programs, such as -nl-, leave behind e(ic) for this; however, I 
don't see this for -xtmixed-; I suggest you contact tech support and 
check this and ask that it be included.

Rich

Jeph Herrin wrote:

> I suppose this applies to any use of maximum
> likelihood.
>
> I'm running a simulation using -simulate- to
> call a wrapper program for -xtmixed-.
>
> Sometimes -xtmixed- doesn't converge, so I call
> -xtmixed- with the option -iterate(1000)-, which
> forces it to stop after 1000 iterations.
>
> What I would like to do is keep track of how often
> -xtmixed- is not converging before 1000 iterations.
> However, there seems to be no way that I can find
> to capture the number of iterations, other than
> parse the output of -xtmixed- itself. Is there
> anywhere that the number of iterations is stored
> for use post-estimation?
>
> thanks,
> Jeph
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