webuse bangladesh, clear
xtmelogit c_use urban age child* || district:
mat b=e(b)
xtmelogit c_use urban age child* || district: , from(b)
xtmelogit c_use urban age child* || district: , from(b) refineopts(iterate(0))
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Jeph Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I am doing a simulation that requires estimating
> a model using -xtmelogit- for each of 1000 iterations.
>
> Since the same model is being estimated using samples
> drawn each time from the same dataset, it seems that
> there should be some way to use the results of each
> iteration as initial values in the next. However,
> -xtmelogit- doesn't seem to accept -initial()- as
> a maximize option. Is there a way I don't see to
> persuade -xtmelogit- to start in a certain place?
> Getting the initial values seems to be the most time
> consuming bit of the estimation.
>
> (As an aside, I could use -xtlogit, re-, which is considerably
> faster, if only -predict- could be persuaded to predict
> random effects, something which apparently is just a minor
> fix:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-03/msg00135.html
>
> I had hoped that Stata 10 would fix this, but apparently -xtlogit-
> is on the path to deprecation.)
>
> Jeph
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