--- Raphael Fraser <[email protected]> wrote:
> -nl- offers a solution but it is NOT a good one. I have tested it
> with data from the cited paper below and have been found lacking.
In what way? As I said before -nl- is sensitive to good starting
values, and if you give no starting values or very wrong ones that -nl-
can converge to a weird solution.
-- Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434
+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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