Maarten,
It seems that I have multicollinearity with some of the variables; so I made dummy variables for these variables and include these instead of the original variables in the model. It seems to be working thus far.
Thanks for replying back.
Dale
Dale Hardy, PhD RD CDE CHES
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University of Texas School of Public Health
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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Maarten buis [maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 9:01 AM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: xtmelogit model not converging
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Hardy, Dale S wrote:
> I am running a logistic mixed model and the performing
> gradient-based optimization iterations are not concave, so
> the model is not converging. Can you tell me what can be
> wrong? How can I fix it?
The standard advise is to simplify the model, so remove the
random coeficient for race, if that model converges you can
try a model with random coefficient for race, if that model
converges you can try to relax the covariance between the
random coefficients by adding the -covariance(unstructured)-
option.
-- Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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