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

[Abekah Nkrumah <ankrumah@gmail.com>]

Dear Stas,

Thanks very much for your response. I bet you I needed this wonderful
sense of humor as the model is still running as am writing. A good
Samaritan on this platform directed me to qreg2, unfortunately, that
seems to give some errors. What I plan doing is possibly to use qreg
which runs faster and prefix it with a bootstrap command to bootstrap
the standard errors. The only thing I will loose is the simultaneous
estimation. I think that I can give up that for some sleep. Thank you
very much.

On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear fellow landscapers,
>
> I need fine sand to plant a few flowers. I put a few 5 cm rocks into
> my kitchen blender and started it on high grate. The blender seems to
> buzz and vibrate, but I don't see any sand coming out of it, just
> smoke.
>
> I bet your model is still around replication number 10 or so. One way
> to try to gauge how much time you need on your full data set is to
> figure out how the problem scales. Run it with 100, 200, 500 and 1000
> observations by 100, 200 and 400 replications (-set rmsg on- or use
> -timer-); fit a power model log( time ) = a + b log( sample size) + c(
> number of bootstrap replicates), and -predict- how things will look
> like for 100,000 observations. I did something of that kind timing my
> -confa- package in
> http://stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0169 (may be that's
> something that the authors of computationally intensive packages
> should do). When people ask me about -confa- and show me their syntax
> with 50+ variables, I just [ palm face ] it.
>
> PS. I have MP4 -glamm- running for the 6th day doing multiple
> imputations on a model with two latent factors and a data set with 400
> observations. And another -glamm- problem with 350,000 observations
> running for the 12th day. Sometimes, you have to be patient.
>
> On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Abekah Nkrumah <ankrumah@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
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