Answer to http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2003-09/msg00422.html
Hi Kat,
I just only skimmed through your program.
I can spot a problem.
You are not allowed to write
args lnf B0 B0race1 B0race2 B1 B1race1 B1race2 B2 B2race1 B2race2 sigma
You must write
. args theta1 theta2 theta 3 theta4 theta5 theta6 theta7 theta8 theta9
theta10
I also find strange that you don�t have anything like
if $ML_y1==1 /* 1 is just an example could also be if $ML_y1==269842 */
but I am not really sure what you are doing.
All in all, I suggest
Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Stata
2nd edition
Authors: William Gould, Jeffrey Pitblado, William Sribney
Publisher: Stata Press
Copyright: 2003
ISBN: 1-881228-83-5
Pages: 289; paperback
Price: $42.00
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/mle.html
I had been blocked for 3 weeks with my first -ml- program, then I read (the
first edition) of this book, and it was trivial to solve my problem. I was
just doing it all wrong.
Best,
Renzo
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