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Re: st: non-linear models not converging
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Maarten Buis <[email protected]>
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Re: st: non-linear models not converging
Date
Wed, 22 May 2013 14:51:39 +0200
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 2:43 PM, James Bernard wrote:
> I understand that the numeric methods used for estimation of models in
> Stata (and any other package) may result in a model that does not
> converge.
>
> Do you happen to know of any trick to help make the model converge? To
> increase the chance of converging?
"Non-linear model" can mean many things, but I guess you mean the
Stata command -nl-. What often works is to provide good starting
values. How to find those depends on the exact problem.
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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