That should be
Mata -optimize()- of course--see
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?mf_optimize
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Austin Nichols
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Sergiy--
> Why are you using -ml- for this? Assuming you have no access to Stata
> 10 for this problem, where Mata -maximize- is the obvious solution,
> you can use -ridder- (findit ridder) described at
> http://www.stata.com/products/stb/journals/stb17.html, with subsequent
> updates, or you can do it manually in various ways... If you must use
> -ml-, you probably can get better performance by reparametrizing the
> function somehow, e.g. maximize -(ln(F/A)^2 or somesuch.
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