Re: st: error message in biprobit

["Marc F. Bellemare" <mfb24@cornell.edu>]

The problem is that the initial values that Stata plugs into your 
likelihood function are not feasible. My hunch is that you'll have to use 
the -ml- set of commands and program a bivariate probit yourself so as to 
be able to tweak the algorithm so that (i) it has feasible initial values; 
and (ii) converges.

I hope this helps,

Marc

At 05:58 PM 11/25/2004 -0300, you wrote:

> Dear statlisters,
> I'm estimating several bivariate probit model using the biprobit
> command.
> In some of them I recieve the follwing error message:
>
> "initial values not feasible"
>
> Does this mean that I can't estimate those models?
> Does anybody know how this can be solved?
>
> Thanks,
>                         Nestor
>
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Marc F. Bellemare
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Department of Applied Economics and Management
Cornell University
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