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by JoeSu
15 May 2023, 07:42
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Error of "Parameter does not influence the log-likelihood of model"
Replies: 2
Views: 2840

Re: Error of "Parameter does not influence the log-likelihood of model"

Dear Prof. Hess

I am very sorry for my stupid mistake.

The module works now.

Thank you and best regards,
Joe
by JoeSu
07 May 2023, 08:35
Forum: Model specification
Topic: Error of "Parameter does not influence the log-likelihood of model"
Replies: 2
Views: 2840

Error of "Parameter does not influence the log-likelihood of model"

Dear developers, I want to use a mixed logit model to do estimation. Below is my code and I got the error: Testing influence of parameters......Error in apollo_estimate(apollo_beta, apollo_fixed, apollo_probabilities, : Parameter mu_Efficiency_L2 does not influence the log-likelihood of your model! ...
by JoeSu
15 Mar 2022, 00:38
Forum: Estimation results
Topic: Latent class fail with "No covariance matrix to compute"
Replies: 2
Views: 2498

Re: Latent class fail with "No covariance matrix to compute"

Dear Stephane,

Thank you a lot for your prompt reply and for pointing out the issues.

I am sure that I am using the 0.2.7 version of Apollo. I have changed the type of draws and extent the iteration to 300. Hope they could work.

Many thanks again,
Joe
by JoeSu
14 Mar 2022, 02:36
Forum: Estimation results
Topic: Latent class fail with "No covariance matrix to compute"
Replies: 2
Views: 2498

Latent class fail with "No covariance matrix to compute"

Hi I am using the Latent class with continuous random parameters. The model failed saying "Estimation failed. No covariance matrix to compute" and the results come out with NaNs. Could you please kindly let me know what should I do to solve this problem? Many thanks in advance. Code for my...