Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-28 Thread roach
http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3018477/JEC.dta JEC.dta This is the data. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3018477/A_Study_of_Cartel_Stability_The_Joint_Executive_Committee.pdf A_Study_of_Cartel_Stability_The_Joint_Executive_Committee.pdf This is the original paper. The variable S is brea

Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-24 Thread Ravi Varadhan
- Original Message - From: roach Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010 4:41 am Subject: Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation To: r-help@r-project.org > I'm not quite familiar with E-M algorithm, but I think what I did was > the > first step of the iteration. > The m

Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-23 Thread roach
I'm not quite familiar with E-M algorithm, but I think what I did was the first step of the iteration. The method used in the original article is as follow: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3008241/untitled.png I gave lamda an initial value, and maximized the likelihood function. This is the

Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-22 Thread dave fournier
Actually it is not that difficult to parameterize the covariance matrix so that the optimization is unconstrained. first parameterize the correlation matrix and the standard deviations separately. the std devs can be parameterized as sigma_i=exp(x_i) 1<=i<=n For the correlation matri

Re: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-22 Thread Ravi Varadhan
avi. -Original Message- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of roach Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 10:24 PM To: r-help@r-project.org Subject: [R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation I was trying to reproduce a result in a published jour

[R] Help: Maximum likelihood estimation

2010-10-21 Thread roach
I was trying to reproduce a result in a published journal, and I have come across some difficulties. I have the following equation, which is two equations combined together. http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3006584/Screenshot.png where http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/file/n3006584/Screenshot-1.p