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st: RE: RE: RE: RE: NL SUR
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"Brian P. Poi" <[email protected]>
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st: RE: RE: RE: RE: NL SUR
Date
Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:33:04 -0500
-----Original Message-----
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of A.Silva
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 9:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: st: NL SUR
Dear all,
I am trying to estimate a NL SUR (AIDS). I have 6 expenditure groups (so, I
use 5 equations).
However, I get the following error:
nlsur aids @ w1 w2 w3 w4 w5 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 lnp4 lnp5 lnp6 lnpx, parameters
(a1 a2 a3
> a4 a5 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 g11 g12 g13 g14 g15 g22 g23 g24 g25 g33 g34 g35
> g44
g45 g55) neq
> (5) ifgnls
(obs = 93)
Calculating NLS estimates...
could not evaluate equation 1
starting values invalid or some RHS variables have missing values r(480);
end of do-file
r(480);
. sum w1 w2 w3 w4 w5
Variable | Obs Mean Std. Dev. Min Max
-------------+--------------------------------------------------------
w1 | 93 .1100006 .009555 .0885841 .1273791
w2 | 93 .0358503 .0024138 .0261827 .0412181
w3 | 93 .3097675 .0091194 .2870499 .3364181
w4 | 93 .1936698 .0147691 .1689364 .2275145
w5 | 93 .085791 .0040142 .0737699 .0976536
-------------
Aside from any syntax errors or other bugs in your code, the real
fundamental problem here is the small number of observations. Typically
these demand systems are fitted using thousands of observations, and in the
past I've seen people have convergence problems when they are trying to fit
a demand system that's just too complicated for the amount of data
available. Given that you only have 93 observations and the expenditure
shares don't appear to have all that much variation, I'd be surprised if you
could really estimate all 25 parameters with any degree of precision.
Just something to think about.
-- Brian Poi
-- [email protected]
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