I have fixed my problem ---
I was running a test program named, ahhh, test.do
It should not cause a problem, but by simply changing the name to a
nonstandard command, everything is ok.
Without worrying about this much more, I assume the problem was that ml
holds the name of the calling program to, for example, testing.do,
everything worked.
Besides saying "Don't do that," does Stata know why this happened?
Otherwise, lesson learned!
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 10:10 -0500, Ed Blackburne wrote:
> I ran into a new error and I cannot trace it because I think the problem
> is caused by an ml proceedure.
>
> I am running a ml model d0 estimation and this is my output:
>
> initial: log likelihood = -1720.5831
> alternative: log likelihood = -1685.3319
> rescale: log likelihood = -801.15134
> Iteration 0: log likelihood = -801.15134 (not concave)
> Iteration 1: log likelihood = 193.03404 (not concave)
> Iteration 2: log likelihood = 813.56394
> Iteration 3: log likelihood = 974.59715
> Iteration 4: log likelihood = 975.55101
> Iteration 5: log likelihood = 975.55103
> system limit exceeded - see manual
> r(1000);
>
> ************************************************
> The model is converging correctly because the last iteration
> log-likelihood is the same as the true model from regress:
> ************************************************
>
>
> . regress c y
>
> Source | SS df MS Number of obs =
> 815
> -------------+------------------------------ F( 1, 813)
> = .
> Model | 3249.51685 1 3249.51685 Prob > F =
> 0.0000
> Residual | 4.35498339 813 .005356683 R-squared =
> 0.9987
> -------------+------------------------------ Adj R-squared =
> 0.9987
> Total | 3253.87184 814 3.99738555 Root MSE
> = .07319
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> c | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf.
> Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
> y | .9982267 .0012816 778.86 0.000 .995711
> 1.000742
> _cons | -.3667309 .0149193 -24.58 0.000 -.3960157
> -.3374461
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> . di e(ll)
> 975.55103
>
>
> Note this is a trivial example to replicate the error.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
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