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Re: st: Backed-up message on last iteration
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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Re: st: Backed-up message on last iteration
Date
Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:18:33 -0400
Shourjo Chakravorty <[email protected]> :
What happens when you restart -biprobit- without the options, using
the estimated coef vector as your starting point?
webuse school, clear
biprobit private vote logptax loginc years, tech(bfgs)
mat b=e(b)
biprobit private vote logptax loginc years, from(b)
Only you can clarify your confusion.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Shourjo Chakravorty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Btw I am using Stata11.
>
> On 3 October 2011 22:02, Shourjo Chakravorty <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am estimating a partially-observable biprobit model with the dfp and
>> bfgs techniques.Sometimes I get the "backed-up message" on the last
>> iteration. I've read the archives here and it says I can trust the
>> results. I am asking because in the book by Gould, Pitblando and Poi
>> (2010) "maximum likelihood estimation with stata" it states that I
>> cannot trust the results if the last iteration has this message (page
>> 20). I am a beginner and would be grateful if someone could clarify my
>> confusion.
>>
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