Estimation pull-down menu |
The "Estimation" menu is intended to be accessed during the estimation phase.
Help .... F1 |
Displays this Help page: F1 is the short-cut key |
Finish iterating of current action .... Ctrl+F |
Completes estimation at the end of the current iteration. If estimation does not seem to be converging, or is converged enough for your purposes. This can also be used to finish some other long processes. |
Bigger changes between iterations F2 |
Increases the size of the changes during estimation. If the maximum residual does not decrease noticeably per iteration, Use the pull-down Estimation menu, and select "Bigger" changes, or press the F2 key. |
Reduce changes between iterations F2 |
Decreases the size of the changes during estimation. If the maximum residual oscillates between large positive and negative values, Use the pull-down Estimation menu, and select "Reduce" changes, or press the F3 key. |
Query: Show next match F4 |
When Query=Yes, this jumps to the next observation to be matched to a Models= specification. |
Query=No: quit data display F6 |
This suppresses reporting of data matching |
Query=Yes: activate data display F6 |
This shows diagnostic information about the matching of data to models. It enables you to check how your data are being matched to your Models= specifications. |
The current setting of Newton=. Newton = 0 for iterative curve fitting.
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If the "max.=" residual values are large in the Iteration report, but changing only slowly between iterations (as in the example below), click on "Bigger" F2. If they are large, and jumping about in value, click on "Reduce" F3.
Iteration 10 Largest Residuals |-------Score---------| logit Measure
Facet Name No./Cat Raw Expected Residual Value Change
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Iteration 10 JMLE max.= 1045.0 max.= .018
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Iteration 11 JMLE max.= 1043.0 max.= .016
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