Jian Zhang:
It seems that you have faithfully copied equation 11 to `lnf', however I could
not find where `g' came from.
One simplification that could make it easier for Stata to find the maximum is
possible: -1/2*ln((`sigma')^2) = -1/2*2*ln(`sigma') = -ln(`sigma')
If you are confident the likelihood equation is correct, than using the
difficult option when calling -ml maximize- can sometimes help. See
-help maximize- for more on this option.
HTH,
Maarten
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--- Jian Zhang wrote:
My loglikelihood function comes from equation 11 of the paper by Carroll,
Dynan and Krane in Review of Economics and Statistics 85(3) 2003,
Here is the program I wrote for the loglikelihood function for equation 11 in their paper.
capture program drop transform1
program transform1
version 9.2
args lnf xb sigma theta
tempvar g
quietly {
gen double `g'=(ln(`theta'*$ML_y1+sqrt((`theta')^2*($ML_y1)^2+1)))/`theta'
replace `lnf'=-1/2*ln((`sigma')^2)-1/2*1/((`sigma')^2)*(`g'-`xb')^2 ///
-1/2*ln(1+(`theta')^2*($ML_y1)^2)
}
end
ml model lf transform1 (dependent variable=independent variable ....) /sigma /theta, robust
cluster(groupvar)
ml maximize
When I used the whole sample, the loglikelihood didn't converge. But when I used a subsample,
it in fact converged. Thus it seems to me that the log likelihood function is fine.
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