Re: st: ml bounds

[Beatrice Crozza <beatrice.crozza@gmail.com>]

Dear all,

I tried to write my likelihood with the following restrictions for
some parameters:
m>0
e>0
1>=d>=0
1>=a>=0

following there is my code.

However, I received as error message: estimates not found, so this
means that I made a mistake in how I imposed the restrictions.

Could you please help me to understand what I am doing wrong and how
to solve the problem?

Thank you very much for your help

Bea


program define myprog

args lnf a d m e g p

tempvar ma md mm  me mg mp am dm omm em

quietly gen double `am'=exp(`a')/(1+exp(`a'))
quietly gen double `dm'=exp(`d')/(1+exp(`d'))
quietly gen double `omm'=exp(`m')
quietly gen double `em'=exp(`e')
quietly gen double `ma'=1-`am'
quietly gen double `md'=1-`dm'
quietly gen double `mm'=1-`omm'
quietly gen double `me'=1-`em'
quietly gen double `mg'=1-`g'
quietly gen double `mp'=1-`p'

quietly replace
`lnf'=ln((`am')*(`dm')*((((`mm')+(`omm')*(`em')*(`g'))^x1)*(((`omm')+(`mm')*(`em')*(`p'))^x2)*(((`mm')*(`em')*(`me'))^x3)*(((`mmo')*(`em')*(`mg'))^x4)*(((`mm')*(`mp'))^x5)*(((`mmo')*(`eo'))^x6)))

end

ml model lf myprog (a:) (d:) (m:) (e:) (g:) (p:)
ml check
ml search
ml maximize, difficult

nlcom (a: exp([am]_b[_cons])/(1+exp([am]_b[_cons])))
nlcom (d: exp([dm]_b[_cons])/(1+exp([dm]_b[_cons])))
nlcom (e: exp([em]_b[_cons]))
nlcom (m: exp([omm]_b[_cons]))


2010/3/3 E. Paul Wileyto <epw@mail.med.upenn.edu>:
> Please be aware that bounds only applies to search, and not to maximize.
>  Search looks for plausible initial values, not for the final mle.
>
> One way to place bounds on parameters is to replace the parameter in your
> likelihood with a function that is bounded.  For example, if you want to
> make sure that your parameter A does not fall below 0, then replace it with
> A=exp(b).  ml will optimize parameter b, with bounds of minus to plus
> infinity, but the parameter of interest, A, remains above 0.  You can then
> recover A and the standard error for A using nlcom.
>
> In a similar fashion, use a logistic function to create an upper and lower
> bound.
>
> Paul
>
> Beatrice Crozza wrote:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am doing a maximum likelihood and I would like to specify some
>> bounds for my parameters.
>>
>> ml model lf myprog (a:) (d:) (m:) (e:) (g:) (p:)
>> ml search
>> ml maximize, difficult
>>
>> I read on the Stata manual that my bounds should be placed after ml
>> search:
>>
>>  bounds(ml_search_bounds) specifies the search bounds.  The command ml
>>        model issues is ml search ml_search_bounds, repeat(#).  Specifying
>>        search bounds is optional.
>>
>> My bounds should be:
>> 0< e m, 0<=a d <=1
>>
>> How should I write this after ml search?
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help.
>>
>> Bea
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