RE: st: MLE for each day

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

In addition, nowhere in the loop do you refer to each value of `day'.  

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

Maarten Buis
============

You still did not tell us what Stata _exactly_ told you when you executed that command. However, I can make a guess what a problem is: You should not define your program inside the loop.

Beatrice Crozza
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thank you very much for your help.

I tried to follow your instructions, but I receive a break.
What I am doing wrong?

thanks,
Bea

Following my code:

levelsof day
foreach day in `r(levels)' {
program define mle
version 10.0
args lnf a d b n g

tempvar ma md mb  mn mg

quietly gen double `ma'=1-`a'
quietly gen double `md'=1-`d'
quietly gen double `mb'=1-`b'
quietly gen double `mn'=1-`n'
quietly gen double `mg'=1-`g'

quietly replace
`lnf'=ln((`a')*(`d')*((((`b')*(`md')*(`g')+(`b')*(`mg')*(`g')*(`n'))^r)*(((`mb')*(`mo')*(`g')+(`mb')*(`mn)*(`ma')*(`n'))^s)*(((`b')*(`md')*(`mg')*(`mn'))^t)*(((`mb')*(`mn')*(`ma')*(`g'))^s)*(((`b')*(`mg')*(`md')+(`mb')*(`b')*(`n'))^t)))

end

ml model lf mle (a:) (d:) (b:) (n:) (g:)
ml search
ml maximize, difficult
}

2010/10/21 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
> }

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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