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2003 Oct 21
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lme mildly blowing up
.... What I'm wondering is: (1) Is the model basically running home to OLS-or-very-close-to-it? If I estimate the same model using stata's xtreg, it returns a sigma_u of zero, and if I estimate it with HLM, it generates a bad tau and tries again with one that is positive but weensy. Are the algorithms in lme doing the same thing here, or something closely analogous? Generating an impermissible negative that gets truncated to zero, or substituting a very small positive number for it, or generating that very small number directly? (2) Assuming that the mod...