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Re: st: nl: missing standar error
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"JVerkuilen (Gmail)" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: nl: missing standar error
Date
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:38:22 -0400
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Could you please give me a hint how to identify the problem? I have no idea, why Stata is not reporting this standard error when I am using my real data set. For me, the programming code looks the same except that I have to replace my variables according to the variables in the test case.
>
It sounds to me like the variance of that parameter is essentially 0
or some other violation of the requirement that a covariance matrix be
positive definite. Try outputting the covariance matrix of the
parameter estimates and see if there are other missing parts or if
(when looked at in correlation scale) the correlation between one
parameter and another is very high.
You may have an empirically unidentified parameter.
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