Re: st: AW: gllamm (poisson) execution time

["Keith Dear (home)" <keith.dear@anu.edu.au>]

Ummm ... no (well, NOW I have).
Except on the uni supercomputer, we only have Stata9, hence ignorance. 
Time to upgrade!
Many thanks Martin.
Keith

ps
http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?xtmepoisson
http://stata.com/stata10/mixedmodels.html



Martin Weiss wrote:
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> Have you looked into -xtmepoisson-?
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> HTH
> Martin
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> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 24. Juni 2009 08:01
> An: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Cc: Ainslie Butler
> Betreff: st: gllamm (poisson) execution time
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> We are trying to model daily mortality by poisson regression, over 17 
> years, by postcode, with postcode as a single random intercept term.
> In Stata10/MP4 on a linux cluster our models each take 7 or 8 hours to 
> fit, which is too long to be feasible for exploratory analyses.
>
> The full dataset has >14 million rows of data: a row for every day for 
> 1991-2007 for every postcode in Australia (~2200 postcodes), but to get 
> things moving we are starting with smaller geographical regions of only 
> 100 or 200 postcodes. Thus N=17*365*(100 or 200), about a half or one 
> million. Also we are starting with failrly simple models, p=17 
> fixed-effect parameters just for trend and annual cycles. The models 
> converge ok, eventually, in only a few iterations and with typical 
> condition number about 2.
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> I found this in the list archives (from Sophia Rabe-Hesketh in 2003):
> ==> biggest gain is to reduce M, followed by n, p and N
> Here we have M=1, n=5 (down from the default of 8), p=17, but N=6E5 or 
> more. There does not seem to be much prospect of reducing any of those, 
> indeed we will need to substantially increase p (for more interesting 
> models) and N (to cover all of Australia at once).
>
> Is there hope? Are there alternatives to gllamm for this? Or are we 
> overlooking something basic here?
> Keith
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