Re: st: suest after nl estimation

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Thu, 16/12/10, Jan Hohberger wrote:
> I am estimating two nonlinear models with the -nl-
> command and would like to compare the results afterwards
> with -suest-. However, I get the error message
> "model_1 was estimated with a non-standard vce (gnr)". 
> The sues-help states that the "estimators should be
> estimated without vce(robust) or vce(cluster clustvar)
> options". Since I am doing this I am not sure why I get the
> error.

I agree that the error message is somewhat confusing. What 
appears to happen is that the default vce is -vce(gnr)-, 
which is a non-standard vce. You can read what the defaults
are in -help nl-. 

A more serious problem is that the -predict- function after 
-nl- does not allow  the prediction of scores. This is a 
requirement for -suest-, so that means you cannot use 
-suest- after -nl-.

What you could do is rewrite your two problems as a maximum
likelihood problem, estimate them using -ml-, and than use 
-suest-.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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