Thanks, Arne! But I'm having another problem now. When I transform my data into a pdata.frame form and try to run a tobit model with random effects I get an error. Below I provide the head of my data, the code I used and the error message. Any help?
> head(pdata) X X.1 year mun.cod uf.cod uf.name mun.name uf.mun ACACRELANDIA-2003 ACACRELANDIA-2003 1 2003 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA-2004 CEIBIAPINA-2003 5561 2004 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA-2005 MGARACUAI-2007 11121 2005 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA-2006 MGSAO GERALDO-2006 16681 2006 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA-2007 PBSERTAOZINHO-2005 22241 2007 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA-2008 PRPIEN-2008 27801 2008 1200013 12 AC ACRELANDIA ACACRELANDIA transfers populat agric.pib indust.pib servic.pib apu.pib tax.pib pib ACACRELANDIA-2003 920 8695 31744.92 5292.439 26942.19 15955.14 4527.178 68506.73 ACACRELANDIA-2004 0 10668 48947.97 9353.529 33134.56 19922.54 5825.801 97261.86 ACACRELANDIA-2005 49287 11451 56291.90 11214.051 39326.32 23340.46 7661.003 114493.30 ACACRELANDIA-2006 385000 11786 55290.26 11976.119 46405.99 27401.64 7730.059 121402.40 ACACRELANDIA-2007 1599730 11520 68478.03 15526.679 54555.67 31382.93 7550.055 146110.40 ACACRELANDIA-2008 1295000 11987 61736.50 12812.245 63688.96 37518.87 7824.615 146062.30 bol.fam ifdm mayor.party mayor.num mayor.name mayor.vot ACACRELANDIA-2003 0 0.4225000 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xeaO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2394 ACACRELANDIA-2004 402 0.3943083 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xeaO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2394 ACACRELANDIA-2005 742 0.5401000 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xcdO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2173 ACACRELANDIA-2006 779 0.5138000 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xcdO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2173 ACACRELANDIA-2007 932 0.5109000 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xcdO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2173 ACACRELANDIA-2008 968 0.5593250 PSDB 45 SEBASTI\xcdO BOCALOM RODRIGUES 2173 mayor.vot.per mayor.coalt voters.able ACACRELANDIA-2003 0.5901 PSDB / PT / PC do B / PV / PMN / PSB / PPS / PDT 6422 ACACRELANDIA-2004 0.5901 PSDB / PT / PC do B / PV / PMN / PSB / PPS / PDT 6422 ACACRELANDIA-2005 0.4082 PP / PDT / PMDB / PPS / PFL / PSDB 6422 ACACRELANDIA-2006 0.4082 PP / PDT / PMDB / PPS / PFL / PSDB 6422 ACACRELANDIA-2007 0.4082 PP / PDT / PMDB / PPS / PFL / PSDB 7548 ACACRELANDIA-2008 0.4082 PP / PDT / PMDB / PPS / PFL / PSDB 7548 presd.turnout lula.vot lula.vot.per transfers.cap pt.dummy pres.turnout.cap ACACRELANDIA-2003 4282 2202 0.51425 0.1058079 0 0.4924669 ACACRELANDIA-2004 4282 2202 0.51425 0.0000000 0 0.4013873 ACACRELANDIA-2005 4282 2202 0.51425 4.3041656 0 0.3739411 ACACRELANDIA-2006 4282 2202 0.51425 32.6658748 0 0.3633124 ACACRELANDIA-2007 5461 2422 0.44400 138.8654514 0 0.4740451 ACACRELANDIA-2008 5461 2422 0.44400 108.0337032 0 0.4555769 pib.cap mun.vote mun.vote2 mun.vote3 mayor.party.r mayor.party.r2 lula.vot.weight ACACRELANDIA-2003 7.878865 1 PT 0.PT 0 2.Opposition 5.084315e-06 ACACRELANDIA-2004 9.117160 1 PT 0.PT 0 2.Opposition 5.084315e-06 ACACRELANDIA-2005 9.998542 1 PT 0.PT 0 2.Opposition 5.084315e-06 ACACRELANDIA-2006 10.300560 1 PT 0.PT 0 2.Opposition 5.084315e-06 ACACRELANDIA-2007 12.683194 0 PSDB 1.PSDB 0 2.Opposition 5.592285e-06 ACACRELANDIA-2008 12.185059 0 PSDB 1.PSDB 0 2.Opposition 5.592285e-06 trans.dummy transfers.cap.lag year2 district term pt.pt pt.coa pt.opp psdb.pt ACACRELANDIA-2003 1 NA 2003-2004 PT/Opo 0 0 0 1 0 ACACRELANDIA-2004 0 NA 2003-2004 PT/Opo 0 0 0 1 0 ACACRELANDIA-2005 1 474.56074 2005-2006 PT/Opo 0 0 0 1 0 ACACRELANDIA-2006 1 22.94781 2005-2006 PT/Opo 0 0 0 1 0 ACACRELANDIA-2007 1 0.00000 2007-2008 PSDB/Opo 1 0 0 0 0 ACACRELANDIA-2008 1 0.00000 2007-2008 PSDB/Opo 1 0 0 0 0 psdb.coa psdb.opp time transf.log ACACRELANDIA-2003 0 0 1 -2.236723 ACACRELANDIA-2004 0 0 2 -6.907755 ACACRELANDIA-2005 0 0 3 1.459816 ACACRELANDIA-2006 0 0 4 3.486362 ACACRELANDIA-2007 0 1 1 4.933513 ACACRELANDIA-2008 0 1 2 4.682453 tob6 <- censReg(transfers.cap ~ pt.pt + psdb.pt + pt.opp + pt.coa + psdb.coa + transfers.cap.lag + pib.cap + ifdm + log(populat) + mayor.vot.per + bol.fam + factor(uf.name) + factor(year), left=0, right=Inf, method="BHHH", nGHQ=15, data = pdata) Error in maxNRCompute(fn = logLikAttr, fnOrig = fn, gradOrig = grad, hessOrig = hess, : NA in the initial gradient Thanks! *Felipe Nunes* CAPES/Fulbright Fellow PhD Student Political Science - UCLA Web: felipenunes.bol.ucla.edu On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Arne Henningsen < arne.henning...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18 September 2011 04:58, Felipe Nunes <felipnu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do you guys know how could I increase the time limit for the iterations > in > > censReg? I'm receiving the following message whatever method I use: > > Newton-Raphson maximisation, 150 iterations > > Return code 4: Iteration limit exceeded. > > Log-likelihood: -67680.41 on 42 Df > > You can use argument "iterlim" to increase the maximum number of > iterations, see documentation of maxNR(). > > /Arne > > -- > Arne Henningsen > http://www.arne-henningsen.name > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.