Re: st: Mlogit: Log pseudolikelihood bug?

[Maarten buis <maartenbuis@yahoo.co.uk>]

--- On Sun, 27/2/11, Robert L. Hellpap wrote:
> I tried to estimate a quiete complex model with more than
> 100 dummy's as independent on a 6 category dependent
> variable. When my results where displayed the log
> pseudolikelihood value was announced as ".z_" which should
> be a missing value. What does ist mean that the log
> pseudolikelihood is a missing value and is it legitime to
> reduce the number of iterations until I receive a legal
> value?

It means that you need to simplify your model. Remember that
the trick of adding dummies to get a fixed effects regression
does not work for non-linear models like -mlogit-, so the
value of adding that many dummies is often doubtful anyhow.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
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72074 Tuebingen
Germany

http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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