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Re: st: Constraints in the MLE
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Beatrice Crozza <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Constraints in the MLE
Date
Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:34 +0100
Thanks a lot.
Now it works.
Bea
2011/6/22 Maarten Buis <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Beatrice Crozza wrote:
>> I am trying to perform a maximum likelihood with two constraints
>> because I want to do a likelihood ratio test to see which model is
>> better, the restricted or the unrestricted.
>> My code works ( in the sense that I don't receive an error message),
>> however, the value of the log likelihood that I receive is always the
>> same, whatever the constraint that I impose.
> <snip>
>> constraint 1 m=e
>> constraint 2 g=p
>> ml model lf myprog (a:) (d:) (m:) (e:) (g:) (p:), technique(bfgs)
>> constraint(1-2)
>
>
> m, e, g, and p are equations so your -constraint- does not do what you
> think it does. Try something like -constraint 1 [a]_cons = [e]_cons-.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Maarten
>
>
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