Re: st: Maximum likelihood estimation

[William Buchanan <william@williambuchanan.net>]

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Billy

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On Feb 13, 2013, at 13:27, Joseph Monte <hmjc66@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Statalisters,
> 
> I'll try again with a little more info since I did not get any
> responses. Here is the code I have so far (based on previous Statalist
> posts and "Maximum Likelihood estimation with Stata" by
> Gould, Pitbaldo and Poi, 4th ed.). The paper I cited in my first email
> below models the log of the variance of the regression error in
> equation 2 while I believe I have modelled the log of sigma. I would
> preferably like to model the log of the variance as in the paper cited
> but am not sure how.
> 
> cscript
>  program mynormal_lf1
>          version 12
>                  args todo b lnfj g1 g2
>          tempvar mu lnsigma sigma
>                  mleval `mu' = `b', eq(1)
>                  mleval `lnsigma' = `b', eq(2)
>          quietly {
>                                gen double `sigma' = exp(`lnsigma')
>                                replace `lnfj' =
> ln(normalden($ML_y1,`mu',`sigma'))
>                                if (`todo'==0) exit
>                                tempvar z
>                                tempname dmu dlnsigma
>                                gen double `z' = ($ML_y1-`mu')/`sigma'
>                                replace `g1' = `z'/`sigma'
>                                replace `g2' = `z'*`z'-1
>                }
>  end
> 
> 
> ml model lf1 mynormal_lf1 (mu: y = x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9)
> (lnsigma: y = x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9)
> ml max
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Joseph Monte <hmjc66@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear Statalisters,
>> 
>> I need to do a maximum likelihood estimation very similar to that in
>> equations (1) and (2) on page 439 of Lowry et al. (2010). Note that
>> equation 2 has the same independent variables as equation 1. I would
>> appreciate it if someone would let me know the code I need to use with
>> the help of an example. I use Stata 12.
>> 
>> References
>> 
>> Lowry, M., Officer, M.S., Schwert, G.W., 2010. The variability of IPO
>> initial returns. The Journal of Finance 65, 425-465
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Joe
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