st: How to choose consistent starting values

[amatoallah ouchen <at.ouchen@gmail.com>]

Good day stata lister,
I'm using a tobit model with friction, and the parameters have to be
estimated by the maximum likelihood procedure, the number of
iterations are exceeded, because The starting points i'm using are not
good, is there is any way to choose consistent starting points?any
hints?

thanks very much for any help
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