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Re: st: nonlinear maximum likelihood with ml
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Maarten buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: nonlinear maximum likelihood with ml
Date
Tue, 3 May 2011 08:01:53 +0100 (BST)
--- Tatyana Deryugina
> I'm trying to estimate the parameters of the distribution of an outcome
> (Y) assuming that Y follows a Beta distribution with parameters that
> depend on some X's. It's easy to write down the log likelihood
> function, but the equation for Y is non-linear.
There is no need to program that yourself as that has already been
implemented in Stata in the -betafit- package, type in Stata:
ssc desc betafit
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Maarten L. Buis
Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://www.maartenbuis.nl
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