--- "Mitchell F. Berman" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good thought on the xtlogit issue, but no, the if clause is not the
> problem. Takes closer to an hour, I think, for the entire data set,
> but I've only done this once. I can tell that it is running slowly,
> because each iteration takes many minutes.
> I sent this issue in to Stata Tech Support. I'm hoping they
> investigate it.
I remember a talk by Bobby Gutierrez (from StataCorp) at the 2007
Nordic and Baltic Stata Users Group meeting where he discussed the
related -xtmelogit- command. He made the following remark about the
speed: The point with these models is that the maximum likelihood
solution requires integration over the random effects, which can be
very computationally intensive in non-linear models, like logistic
regression. Shortcuts exist, for instance in the form of PQL and MQL,
but these can be severely biased. For that reason StataCorp decided for
-xtmelogit- to integrate over the marginal effects using adaptive
Gaussian quadratures. Basically preferring to be slow but correct
instead of fast but wrong. Something similar may be the case with
-xtlogit-. You can find that talk here:
http://www.stata.com/meeting/2sweden/abstracts.html
-- Maarten
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