--- Katia Bobulova <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Stas,thank you very much for your suggestion, but it doesn' t
> work because a and d are not numerical variables. They are
> probabilities that I want to estimate with my maximum likelihood. So
> Stata gave my an error message. <snip>
My impression of this discussion is that you tried to estimate a model
using -ml- and could not get it to work, and than tried to solve that
problem by making a complicated problem more complicated (by turning to
profile likelihood rather than regular likelihood). I am reading
between the lines here, but if this is your debugging strategy, then it
is absolutely doomed to fail. The only way to debug such a problem is
to reduce to problem to an easier problem, solve that, and only once
you have solved that continue to a slighly more complicated problem,
solve that, and only once you have ... etc. I usually start with either
a logistic regression likelihood or a regression with normal errors,
and gradually continue form those models. (actually, I usually start
with the complicate model I am interested in, than I fail, and only
than do I follow my own advise and start with those simple models).
-- Maarten
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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