As part of carrying out a complicated maximum likelihood estimation, I
am trying to learn to program likelihoods in R. I started with a simple
probit model but am unable to get the code to work. Any help or
suggestions are most welcome. I give my code below:
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Deepankar,
Some general advice from a non-expert:
Write your likelihoods without a for loop. This is important because
the likelihood is evaluated multiple times in the maximization process
and you don't want to be looping looping looping ...
Always try multiple starting values
Sometimes it hel
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