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Re: st: using ML for hurdle model, invalid syntax error
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Leny Mathew <[email protected]>
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Re: st: using ML for hurdle model, invalid syntax error
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Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:56:05 -0400
As a matter of fact, I used your log gamma program to get the gamma
likelihood correct, but using the nblogit as a whole never crossed my
mind. That will make this exercise much easier. Thanks!!
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I may be missing something since I just saw your last correspondence
> regarding hurdle models,
> but why don't you use the same logic of using ML for creating hurdle models
> as I did when writing
> poisson-logit, poisson-probit, poisson-clog, NB-logit, NB-probit, and
> NB-clog hurdle models that were
> posted to the SSC site a several years ago. If you wish to rewrite the
> models, or to create others, it is
> easy to adapt the commands already done, or amend them, for your purposes.
>
> Joseph Hilbe
>
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:45:26 +0100 (BST)
> From: Maarten buis <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: using ML for hurdle model, invalid syntax error
>
> - --- On Thu, 21/10/10, Leny Mathew wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to use the ml function to estimate a hurdle
>> model. <snip>
>> The code is below:
>>
>> ml model lf hurdle_gam (cnew= time tsq) (time tsq) if T
>> <=3 & final==0, robust cluster(ID)
>> ml check
>
> <snip>
>>
>> args lnf beta1 beta2 lnphi
>
> <snip>
>>
>> gen double `phi' = exp(`lnphi')
>> =
>> gen double __00000B = exp()
>> invalid syntax
>
> - -ml- calls your evaluator (-hurdle_cam-) with first the name
> of the variable in which to store the log-likelihood, than the
> linear predictor of your first equation (-(cnew= time tsq)-),
> than the linear predictor of the second equation (-(time tsq)-),
> and since you did not specify a third equation in your -ml model-
> statement, there will be no third equation. So, even though you
> specified a third equation called lnphi in the -args- command,
> that local macro will be empty, so -exp(`lnphi')- will be
> evaluated as -exp()-, which gives your error. To solve this you
> need to specify the third equation in your -ml model statement.
> If you only want it to be a constant you can do that as follows:
>
> ml model lf hurdle_gam (cnew= time tsq) (time tsq) /lnphi ///
> if T <=3 & final==0, robust cluster(ID)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
> - --------------------------
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> Universitaet Tuebingen
> Wilhelmstrasse 36
> 72074 Tuebingen
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>
> http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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