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Re: st: problem with MLE


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: problem with MLE
Date   Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:19:14 +0000 (GMT)

--- DEEPANKAR BASU <[email protected]> wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to go about finding the error, correcting it
> and making the program work?

I can't spot the problem, but I can tell you that a useful debugging
strategy is to start with a much smaller program and gradually build it
to the full model that is desired. Substantively such smaller models
may be completely unacceptable within your discipline, but don't worry
about that, it is just a step in getting the mechanics to work.
Sometimes such smaller models happen to coincide with models that are
already implemented in Stata, so you can use that as a check of whether
you start from the right point.

-- Maarten 

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434

+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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