Re: [R] polr: initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite

2015-03-08 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
If you did as the posting guide asked and not send HTML your message might actually be readable. But I see no sign of the 'commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible' example. The issue is most likely the starting values. See ?polr for how to specify others (and it sounds like you can

[R] polr: initial value in 'vmmin' is not finite

2015-03-08 Thread Wouter Simons
Hi all, I'm trying to estimate an ordered probit model using polr: polr(Rating ~ Currac + Debt + Inflation + GDPpc + GDPgr + Ratio + Levelofdev + Eurozone + Default, method ="probit") where Rating is an ordered discrete dependent variable and the independent variables are a set of economic deter