I wrote:
Even -ml- can experience trouble avoiding converging to local
maxima with fewer than 50, or so, repeated searches in -ml search-
beforehand.
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I'd like to emphasize that that statement shouldn't be generalized out of
context. In my experience, -ml- *doesn't* have any such problems when it is
used as StataCorp intended. Only when I applied it to this specific
unintended function-maximizing case have I ever seen -ml- converge to a
local maximum with its default search settings.
Joseph Coveney
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* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/findit.html
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
