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Re: st: Minimum distance estimator
From
Carlos Rodriguez <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: Minimum distance estimator
Date
Thu, 15 Apr 2010 19:13:59 -0700
You might look inside quantile regression ado. It's not mata but
should be close to what you want.
Best,
Carlos
> Dear Statalist,
>
> Does anyone have a code to estimate a Minimum Distance Estimator using mata optimize or lm?
> In other words, my problem is as follows. I have a set of estimators B and a mapping of these estimators into another set of parameters such that A=H(B). I want to find a way to minimize (A-H(B))`W(A-H(B)) where W is a weighting matrix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Benjamin
>
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