Re: st: component order for fmm

[YANNAN SHEN <yannan2010@gmail.com>]

Scott,
Thank you so much for your reply and advice! It matters because I try to use the fmm identification to assign stocks into two portfolios- the portfolio that consists higher constant  stocks and the one with lower constant stocks.

I am running the fmm command every month and with shuffled identification, I need to check and edit my result data to make sure they are in the right place. 

I appreciate your help very much but I cannot help asking a question: I know initial values are important for EM algorithm and different starting points may lead to different results, will this somewhat alter my results?
 Thanks!
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On Aug 21, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Scott Merryman <scott.merryman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Why does the order of the components matter?  Also, you should mention
> that Partha Deb's -fmm- and Joerg Luedicke's -fmmlc-  are from ssc.
> 
> One way would be to change the initial values.  For example:
> 
> clear
> set seed 891234
> set obs 3
> gen id = _n
> expand 100
> gen y = rnormal(50,10) if id == 1
> replace y = rnormal(100,10) if id == 2
> replace y = rnormal(150,10) if id == 3
> fmm y , components(3) mix(normal) from(50 100 150 1 1 1 1 1)
> fmm y , components(3) mix(normal) from(50 150 100 1 1 1 1 1)
> fmm y , components(3) mix(normal) from(150 100 50 1 1 1 1 1)
> 
> Scott
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:15 PM, yannan shen <yannan2010@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am working on some panel data (stocks by month)
>> Every year, I am using the fmm package to identify stocks return into
>> groups. And then I am using the fmmlc, savec savep command to save up
>> the result.
>> My code looks like this
>> 
>> keep if  obs==67  *obs 67 =06/1998
>> fmm  ro_cons, components(2) mix(normal)
>> fmmlc, savec savep
>> fmm  ro_cons, components(3) mix(normal)
>> fmmlc, savec savep
>> 
>> what I care is _b[_cons] the coefficient for the intercept.
>> However, I noticed that for some years _b[_cons group1]>_b[_cons
>> group2], and sometimes, it's the other way around.
>> It there anyway I can put a constraint to this command and make sure
>> the intercept term for group 1 is always greater than intercept for
>> group2?
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