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Re: st: Second derivative for GMM
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Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Second derivative for GMM
Date
Thu, 7 Jul 2011 19:24:06 -0500
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:43 AM, John Bates <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stata's GMM command allows the user to specify analytic first derivatives. Is there any way to specify the second derivatives? (Or will this functionality be added in future versions?) I would think that would speed the command up.
I did not think the second derivatives play any role either in the
theory of GMM or in numerical procedures. You are minimizing the GMM
objective function; the Jacobian is a linear combination of the moment
conditions, and the Hessian is the linear combination of the first
order derivatives. Where do the second derivatives come into play?
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