--- Clyde Schechter <[email protected]> wrote:
> In particular, in addition to the kinds of modeling problems Maarten
> pointed out, xtmixed can fail to converge because of a boundary
> problem when one of the random effects being estimated is close to
> zero. In some of my models this might be the case. But the final EM
> results may be fairly far from the correct values and could fail to
> display this problem, could they not?
I was about to suggest that if you specify the -trace- option in
-xtmixed- you get displays of the ln(sd)s, but if I look at the example
below this does not seem to be the case, sorry.
*-------------- begin example ---------------------
webuse nlswork
generate age2 = age^2
generate tenure2 = tenure^2
xtmixed ln_w grade age* ttl_exp tenure* || id: grade, trace
matrix list e(b)
*-------------- end example -----------------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
-- Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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