RE: st: Stata extremely slow on bsqreg and sqreg command

["Santos Silva, J.M.C." <jmcss@essex.ac.uk>]

Dear Gordon,

With such large data set, and presumably many regressors, quantile regression
will always be slow; bootstrapping  makes it even slower. So, you just have to wait 
a bit longer... 

Alternatively, instead of bsqreg you can use qreg2 (available from ssc). It won't do
the simultaneous quantile estimator but there may be a way to avoid it. Feel free 
to contact me directly if you want to discuss this further.

With best regards,

Joao

> Dear Statalist,
> 
> I will appreciate your help on this. I am running the sqreg and bsqreg
> command with 400 replications. I executed the command around 23:30 hrs
> Saturday and it is now 09:43 hrs Sunday and the command is still
> running. Please note: I have 160,000 observations (of course some of
> the observations will drop due to differences in observations per
> variable). I am using  Stata SE version 11 running on a Macbook Pro
> with 2.26 GHZ Intel core 2 duo and memory 2GB
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get the command to run faster
> 
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gordon
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