st: Run time for random effects Poisson model

[Owen Gallupe <ogallupe@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone could give me an educated guess on how long it would
take to run random effects Poisson model with 7 random coefficients.

There are about 2500 cases and 20 IVs at level 1 (more details at bottom).

I already aborted one attempt after about an hour when I figured something
must have gone wrong. But I did some research and I was clearly just being
impatient. However, now I am nearly 15 hours in and it still appears to be
chugging along.

Is this likely to take a few more hours? Days? Weeks? I can handle a couple
days, but I will have to rethink my approach if it is likely to go beyond
that as I have a series of models that need to be run.

Thanks.

Owen

The syntax is:
xtmepoisson dv iv1 iv2 iv3 iv4 iv5 iv6 iv7 iv8 iv9 iv10 iv11 iv12 iv13 iv14
iv15 iv16 iv17 iv18 iv19 iv20 || group: iv4 iv5 iv6 iv7 iv8 iv9 iv10,
cov(unstructured)

I am using Stata SE 12.1 (64 bit) with Windows 7 on a computer with an
Intel i7-2640M (2.40 GHz) and 8GB RAM.
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