In addition earlier posts advised the use of -set trace- and queried the
use of colons.
If Katia searches the archives, she will find several attempts to help
her.
Nick
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Maarten buis
One thing that strikes me is that you haven't specified a dependent
variable.
Other than that I would split up the likelihood in smaller parts, with
a bunch of -tempvars- (-doubles- of course), like so:
tempvar part1 part2 part3 part4 part5
gen double `part1' = (((`m')*(`g')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^bo)
gen double `part2' = (((`m')*(`mg')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^bq)
gen double `part3' = (((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^so)
gen double `part4' = (((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^sq)
gen double `part5' = (((`mu')*(`me'))^n))
etc
replace `lnf' = ln((`a')*(`d')* \\\
`part1'*`part2'*`part3'*`part4'*`part5'+...)
I would change part1 part2 etc in more substantively meaningful names.
For example, I often create temprorary variables called num and denom
(for the numerator and the denominator of a fraction). This does not
change your likelihood, but it makes the code easier to read and debug.
The third bit of advise I can give you is to start debugging a very
much simplified version of your likelihood. Often when you restrict
parameters of these likelihoods to certain values, the model collapses
to a much simpler special cases (for which a official Stata command may
exist). Debug your program for such a special case (and check against
the result from the official Stata equivalent if it exists), and than
add one by one the additional parameters to your model.
Katia Bobulova
>
> I am trying to perform a maximum likelihood that it is a little bit
> complicate for me.
> I specified the model and after that I used the command ml check to
> control that everything was fine, but I received the message that
> there are too few variables specified.
>
> Could you please help me to understand what is wrong with my model? I
> really need help!
>
> Following my program:
>
> program define myprogram
> version 10.0
> args lnf a d m e g p
>
> tempvar eh mu ma me md mg mp
>
> quietly gen double `eh'=0.7*`e'
> quietly gen double `mu'=1-`m'
> quietly gen double `ma'=1-`a'
> quietly gen double `me'=1-`e'
> quietly gen double `md'=1-`d'
> quietly gen double `mg'=1-`g'
> quietly gen double `mp'=1-`p'
>
> quietly replace
>
`lnf'=ln((`a')*(`d')*((((`m')*(`g')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^bo)*(((`m
')*(`mg')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^bq)*(((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^s
o)*(((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^sq)*(((`mu')*(`me'))^n))+(`a')*(`md')*(
(((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^bo)*(((`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^bq)*(((`m
')*(`g')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^so)*(((`m')*(`mg')+(`mu')*(`e')*(`eh
')*(`mp'))^sq)*(((`mu')*(`me'))^n))+(`ma')*((((`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^bo)*((
(`e')*(`eh')*(`mp'))^bq)*(((`e')*(`eh')*(`p'))^so)*(((`e')*(`eh')*(`mp')
)^sq)*((`me')^n))
>
> end
>
> ml model lf myprogram (a:) (d:) (m:) (e:) (g:) (p:)
> ml check
>
> After this I receive the error message.
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