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Re: st: GMM with 93+ regressors produces error


From   "Brian P. Poi" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: GMM with 93+ regressors produces error
Date   Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:04:46 -0500


On 2/26/2011 7:11 PM, Stas Kolenikov wrote:
Brian,

this is a pretty peculiar case of a deeply hidden limit that does not
produce an informative error message. Can you please discuss this
situation in the help for -gmm- or in the manual in more detail? Can
you show the syntax you used for parsing Julian's expression, so that
others can reproduce it in order to judge whether they have problems
with the length of an expression? Or did you just pick the long
expression from the trace? As I said, I encountered some pretty long
-gmm- expressions in my work, and want to find out how stable my code
would be for longer lists of regressors or instruments, preferably
before sending the syntax to -gmm- only to find it breaking down.


Stas,

I just -set trace on- then grabbed the -replace- statement that actually caused the error message. Then I just copied that into a do-file, removed the ">"'s that appear in the trace log, and ran it.
See below.

My advice would be that if are using -gmm- inside another command or are working on something that can create lengthy substitutable expressions, you're better off writing a function evaluator program instead.

   -- Brian Poi
   -- [email protected]


Here's what I ran:



clear all
set seed 38
set obs 93
gen id =  _n
expand 10
gen lhs = uniform() < 0.5
xi I.id

* These two commands should produce the same coefficient estimates.
* -gmm- produces an error here though.

*logit lhs _I*


gen __00002X = 3
mat __000006 = J(1,100,1)

#delimit ;
local express lhs - exp(
	(__000006[1,1] *_Iid_2 +
	 __000006[1,2] *_Iid_3 +
	 __000006[1,3] *_Iid_4 +
	 __000006[1,4] *_Iid_5 +
	 __000006[1,5] *_Iid_6 +
	 __000006[1,6] *_Iid_7 +
	 __000006[1,7] *_Iid_8 +
	 __000006[1,8] *_Iid_9 +
	 __000006[1,9] *_Iid_10 +
	 __000006[1,10] *_Iid_11 +
	 __000006[1,11] *_Iid_12 +
	 __000006[1,12] *_Iid_13 +
	 __000006[1,13] *_Iid_14 +
	 __000006[1,14] *_Iid_15 +
	 __000006[1,15] *_Iid_16 +
	 __000006[1,16] *_Iid_17 +
	 __000006[1,17] *_Iid_18 +
	 __000006[1,18] *_Iid_19 +
	 __000006[1,19] *_Iid_20 +
	 __000006[1,20] *_Iid_21 +
	 __000006[1,21] *_Iid_22 +
	 __000006[1,22] *_Iid_23 +
	 __000006[1,23] *_Iid_24 +
	 __000006[1,24] *_Iid_25 +
	 __000006[1,25] *_Iid_26 +
	 __000006[1,26] *_Iid_27 +
	 __000006[1,27] *_Iid_28 +
	 __000006[1,28] *_Iid_29 +
	 __000006[1,29] *_Iid_30 +
	 __000006[1,30] *_Iid_31 +
	 __000006[1,31] *_Iid_32 +
	 __000006[1,32] *_Iid_33 +
	 __000006[1,33] *_Iid_34 +
	 __000006[1,34] *_Iid_35 +
	 __000006[1,35] *_Iid_36 +
	 __000006[1,36] *_Iid_37 +
	 __000006[1,37] *_Iid_38 +
	 __000006[1,38] *_Iid_39 +
	 __000006[1,39] *_Iid_40 +
	 __000006[1,40] *_Iid_41 +
	 __000006[1,41] *_Iid_42 +
	 __000006[1,42] *_Iid_43 +
	 __000006[1,43] *_Iid_44 +
	 __000006[1,44] *_Iid_45 +
	 __000006[1,45] *_Iid_46 +
	 __000006[1,46] *_Iid_47 +
	 __000006[1,47] *_Iid_48 +
	 __000006[1,48] *_Iid_49 +
	 __000006[1,49] *_Iid_50 +
	 __000006[1,50] *_Iid_51 +
	 __000006[1,51] *_Iid_52 +
	 __000006[1,52] *_Iid_53 +
	 __000006[1,53] *_Iid_54 +
	 __000006[1,54] *_Iid_55 +
	 __000006[1,55] *_Iid_56 +
	 __000006[1,56] *_Iid_57 +
	 __000006[1,57] *_Iid_58 +
	 __000006[1,58] *_Iid_59 +
	 __000006[1,59] *_Iid_60 +
	 __000006[1,60] *_Iid_61 +
	 __000006[1,61] *_Iid_62 +
	 __000006[1,62] *_Iid_63 +
	 __000006[1,63] *_Iid_64 +
	 __000006[1,64] *_Iid_65 +
	 __000006[1,65] *_Iid_66 +
	 __000006[1,66] *_Iid_67 +
	 __000006[1,67] *_Iid_68 +
	 __000006[1,68] *_Iid_69 +
	 __000006[1,69] *_Iid_70 +
	 __000006[1,70] *_Iid_71 +
	 __000006[1,71] *_Iid_72 +
	 __000006[1,72] *_Iid_73 +
	 __000006[1,73] *_Iid_74 +
	 __000006[1,74] *_Iid_75 +
	 __000006[1,75] *_Iid_76 +
	 __000006[1,76] *_Iid_77 +
	 __000006[1,77] *_Iid_78 +
	 __000006[1,78] *_Iid_79 +
	 __000006[1,79] *_Iid_80 +
	 __000006[1,80] *_Iid_81 +
	 __000006[1,81] *_Iid_82 +
	 __000006[1,82] *_Iid_83 +
	 __000006[1,83] *_Iid_84 +
	 __000006[1,84] *_Iid_85 +
	 __000006[1,85] *_Iid_86 +
	 __000006[1,86] *_Iid_87 +
	 __000006[1,87] *_Iid_88 +
	 __000006[1,88] *_Iid_89 +
         __000006[1,89] *_Iid_90 +
         __000006[1,90] *_Iid_91 +
         __000006[1,91] *_Iid_92 +
         __000006[1,92] *_Iid_93) +
         __000006[1,93] )/(1+exp( (
         __000006[1,1] *_Iid_2 +
	__000006[1,2] *_Iid_3 +
	__000006[1,3] *_Iid_4 +
	__000006[1,4] *_Iid_5 +
	__000006[1,5] *_Iid_6 +
	__000006[1,6] *_Iid_7 +
	__000006[1,7] *_Iid_8 +
	__000006[1,8] *_Iid_9 +
	__000006[1,9] *_Iid_10 +
	__000006[1,10] *_Iid_11 +
	__000006[1,11] *_Iid_12 +
	__000006[1,12] *_Iid_13 +
	__000006[1,13] *_Iid_14 +
	__000006[1,14] *_Iid_15 +
	__000006[1,15] *_Iid_16 +
	__000006[1,16] *_Iid_17 +
	__000006[1,17] *_Iid_18 +
	__000006[1,18] *_Iid_19 +
	__000006[1,19] *_Iid_20 +
	__000006[1,20] *_Iid_21 +
	__000006[1,21] *_Iid_22 +
	__000006[1,22] *_Iid_23 +
	__000006[1,23] *_Iid_24 +
	__000006[1,24] *_Iid_25 +
	__000006[1,25] *_Iid_26 +
	__000006[1,26] *_Iid_27 +
	__000006[1,27] *_Iid_28 +
	__000006[1,28] *_Iid_29 +
	__000006[1,29] *_Iid_30 +
	__000006[1,30] *_Iid_31 +
	__000006[1,31] *_Iid_32 +
	__000006[1,32] *_Iid_33 +
	__000006[1,33] *_Iid_34 +
	__000006[1,34] *_Iid_35 +
	__000006[1,35] *_Iid_36 +
	__000006[1,36] *_Iid_37 +
	__000006[1,37] *_Iid_38 +
	__000006[1,38] *_Iid_39 +
	__000006[1,39] *_Iid_40 +
	__000006[1,40] *_Iid_41 +
	__000006[1,41] *_Iid_42 +
	__000006[1,42] *_Iid_43 +
	__000006[1,43] *_Iid_44 +
	__000006[1,44] *_Iid_45 +
	__000006[1,45] *_Iid_46 +
	__000006[1,46] *_Iid_47 +
	__000006[1,47] *_Iid_48 +
	__000006[1,48] *_Iid_49 +
	__000006[1,49] *_Iid_50 +
	__000006[1,50] *_Iid_51 +
	__000006[1,51] *_Iid_52 +
	__000006[1,52] *_Iid_53 +
	__000006[1,53] *_Iid_54 +
	__000006[1,54] *_Iid_55 +
	__000006[1,55] *_Iid_56 +
	__000006[1,56] *_Iid_57 +
	__000006[1,57] *_Iid_58 +
	__000006[1,58] *_Iid_59 +
	__000006[1,59] *_Iid_60 +
	__000006[1,60] *_Iid_61 +
	__000006[1,61] *_Iid_62 +
	__000006[1,62] *_Iid_63 +
	__000006[1,63] *_Iid_64 +
	__000006[1,64] *_Iid_65 +
	__000006[1,65] *_Iid_66 +
	__000006[1,66] *_Iid_67 +
	__000006[1,67] *_Iid_68 +
	__000006[1,68] *_Iid_69 +
	__000006[1,69] *_Iid_70 +
	__000006[1,70] *_Iid_71 +
	__000006[1,71] *_Iid_72 +
	__000006[1,72] *_Iid_73 +
	__000006[1,73] *_Iid_74 +
	__000006[1,74] *_Iid_75 +
	__000006[1,75] *_Iid_76 +
	__000006[1,76] *_Iid_77 +
	__000006[1,77] *_Iid_78 +
	__000006[1,78] *_Iid_79 +
	__000006[1,79] *_Iid_80 +
	__000006[1,80] *_Iid_81 +
	__000006[1,81] *_Iid_82 +
	__000006[1,82] *_Iid_83 +
	__000006[1,83] *_Iid_84 +
	__000006[1,84] *_Iid_85 +
	__000006[1,85] *_Iid_86 +
	__000006[1,86] *_Iid_87 +
	__000006[1,87] *_Iid_88 +
	__000006[1,88] *_Iid_89 +
	__000006[1,89] *_Iid_90 +
	__000006[1,90] *_Iid_91 +
	__000006[1,91] *_Iid_92 +
	__000006[1,92] *_Iid_93) +
	__000006[1,93] ))
;

#delimit cr

local express2 : list retok express
di "-->`express2'<--"

gen k = 1
replace k = `express2'



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