Deepankar:
Your constraint is not only a linear constraint (the probabilities
should add up to one), but also a inequality constraint (all
probabilities should be larger than zero and less than one). Just
imposing the linear constraint would be equivalent to Nick's solution,
which ignores the inequality constraint.
HTH,
Maarten
--- Deepankar Basu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just now, I came across the "constraints" command which can be used
to
> specify linear constraints on the parameters. Since my constraints
are > linear, I can probably use this too.
> > Nick Cox
> > But one way to do it is to parameterise in terms
> > of e.g. a, b, 1 - (a + b). If you are lucky this
> > will be enough.
> >
> > You could still have problems if the algorithm
> > is happiest at e.g. a = 1.1, b = -0.9, c = 0.8.
> > > Deepankar Basu
> > > I am trying to do a maximum likelihood estimation where some of
> > > the parameters of the model are probabilities; hence they
> > > should add up to unity.
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