Stephen P. Jenkins <[email protected]> asks about some undocumented
features of the -ml- command:
> The 16april2003 ado file update includes, in part, a statement:
> "8. ml did not correctly compute the tolerance for the
> nrtolerance() option when the nr or bhhh options
> were also specified. ... "
> However the -nr- and -bhhh- options are undocumented in the ref manuals
> or on-line help for -ml.
> There was a helpful but brief mention of the options in a Statalist
> message on 03 Jan 2002 from Vince Wiggins and Weihua Guan (StataCorp),
> stating in part that "The DFP, BFGS, and BHHH can be used by -ml-
> programmers, but they are not currently documented, though they may be
> in the future."
> Can they be documented please?
We are currently working on a new edition of the ML Book. This new edition
will contain documentation for the -nr- and -bhhh- options.
The expected publication date is June of this year.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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