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Re: st: User-defined MLE problem: How would you solve this?


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To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: User-defined MLE problem: How would you solve this?
Date   Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:08:30 -0400

Richard, thanks that was very helpful. It seems to work!



                                                                                
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At 11:32 AM 6/18/2008, [email protected] wrote:
>    Below you find the .ado file and the command I used for this
> problem. However
>    I know they are not correct, since my setup estimates 2 x-coefficients
>    defined by the mu1 and mu2 equations, but I only want to
> estimate one for the
>    dependent variable j: b_j. What to do such that the intercepts
> in mu1 and mu2
>    are different, but b_j are identical?
>
>    program LDV
>          version 9.2
>          args lnf mu1 mu2 sigma
>          quietly replace `lnf'=ln(1/(2*_pi*(`sigma'^2)))-(1
>          /(2*(`sigma'^2))*($ML_y1-`mu1'))^2 if $ML_y1<0
>          quietly replace `lnf'=ln(1/(2*_pi*(`sigma'^2)))-(1
>          /(2*(`sigma'^2))*($ML_y1-`mu2'))^2 if $ML_y1>0
>          quietly replace
>          `lnf'=ln(normalden(-`mu2',0,`sigma')-normalden(-`mu1',0,`sigma')) if
>          $ML_y1==0
>    end
>
>
>    Stata command: ml model lf LDV (mu1:  y=x) (mu2: y=x) (sigma:)

Perhaps the constraints option would do it.  Try

constraint 1 [#1]x = [#2]x
ml model lf LDV (mu1:  y=x) (mu2: y=x) (sigma:), constraint(1)


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