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Re: st: The error "initial values not feasible, r(1400)" in mvtobit model


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: The error "initial values not feasible, r(1400)" in mvtobit model
Date   Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:21:11 +0100

See the suggestion already made

<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15755316/how-to-tackle-r1400-error#comment22436784_15755316>

On 3 April 2013 14:14, Nimanthika Lokuge <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm estimating the demand for several food items using Almost Ideal
> Demand System. There, I have to do censoring using the Multivariate
> Tobit model.
>
> I'm using Stata/SE 11.2 and my data set consists of nearly 18,500 households.
>
> I used the following code & it returned an error as "initial values
> not feasible, r(1400)".
>
> //homogeneity//
> constraint define 1 [q1]lnp1+[q1]lnp2+[q1]lnp3=0
> constraint define 2 [q2]lnp1+[q2]lnp2+[q2]lnp3=0
>
>
> //symmetry//
> constraint define 3  [q1]lnp2=[q2]lnp1
>
>
> global demand1 "(q1: w1 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 lnxp)"
> global demand2 "(q2: w2 lnp1 lnp2 lnp3 lnxp)"
>
>
> mvtobit $demand1 $demand2, const(1 2 3)
>
>
> Is there a way to tackle this error?
>
>
> Many thanks in advance.
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