Dear Statalist,
I wonder why Stata tells me that I haven't enough observations to estimate my
system of equations with "NLSUR". ("cannot have fewer observations than
parameters")
In fact, I have a system of equations to estimate. One equation per good `i' :
(the coefficients I have to estimate are between the braces {}.)
dw`i' = {b`i'} *ddeflexp + {g`i'vs1} * dlnp1+ {g`i'vs2} * dlnp2+ {g`i'vs3} *
dlnp3 + {g`i'vs4} * dlnp4 + {g`i'vs5} * dlnp5 + {g`i'vs6} * dlnp6 + {g`i'vs7}
* dlnp7 + {g`i'vs8} * dlnp8 + {g`i'vs9} * dlnp9 + {g`i'vs10} * dlnp10 +
{g`i'vs11} * dlnp11 + {g`i'vs12} * dlnp12 )
As you can see, I have 13 coefficients to estimate for each good `i'
(i=1,...,12)
I have 78 observations. The problem just comes because I think Stata calculate
the total number of coefficients(13 * 12 = 156), but in fact I have only 13 per
good...
What's disturbing is that, I estimate a quite similar system with "reg3" (with
and without the SURE option) and have no problem...
Does someone have an idea???
Thank you very much.
Val�rie
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