RE: st: MLE for each day

[Nick Cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I strongly support Maarten's stance here. People who post unanswerable questions are, in the first instance, wasting their own time and delaying the receipt of good advice. 

On a matter of detail, note that -levels- leaves in its wake r(levels), not r(varlist). Thus the recipe should be 

levelsof day
foreach day in `r(levels)' {
    ml model lf my_prog_lf (y=x) (x2) ... if day == `day', maximize
}

Nick 
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk 

Maarten buis

--- On Thu, 21/10/10, Beatrice Crozza wrote:
> I wrote a maximum likelihood with the lf method.
> 
> Now, I want to tell Stata to do the maximum likelihood for
> each day in my sample (each day is divided in time intervals).
> 
> How can I do this?
> 
> I tried foreach at the beginning of the program but doesn'
> t work.

Doesn't work is not informative enough, we need to know 
exactly what you typed, what you expected Stata to return, 
and what Stata actually did return.

Given what you told us I can only give you this pseudo-code
that you might or might not be able to adjust to your 
problem

levelsof day
foreach day in `r(varlist)' {
    ml model lf my_prog_lf (y=x) (x2) ... if day == `day', maximize
}


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