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Re: st: Incomplete Beta Function
From
Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Incomplete Beta Function
Date
Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:44:21 +0100
On its own the incomplete beta function is not a model, so you need to
tell us more before we can help you.
-- Maarten
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks Maarteen,
> yes I need to estimate the parameters a and b of this beta incomplete
> function by ml.
> Thanks
> Catia
>
> 2013/2/18 Maarten Buis <[email protected]>:
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I would like to estimate incomplete Beta function such as this below
>>> trough maximum likelihood I can performance this in Stata?
>>>
>>> (y*/50) = I (a, b)
>>> where I(a, b) is the incomplete Beta function ratio with parameters a and b.
>>
>> What is your question? Do you want to incomplete Beta function? Than
>> type in Stata: -findit incomplete beta function-. Do you want to
>> estimate the paramters a and b? Than you need to write down your
>> log-likelihood function and use -ml- to maximize that. In that case
>> you will want to have access to:
>> <http://www.stata.com/bookstore/maximum-likelihood-estimation-stata/>.
>>
>> -- Maarten
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Maarten
>>
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