[R] Error in eigen(a$hessian) : infinite or missing values in 'x'
Uwe Ligges
ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
Mon Nov 7 13:20:52 CET 2011
On 05.11.2011 15:08, Kristian Lind wrote:
> Dear R-users,
>
> I'm estimating a two- dimensional state-space model using the FKF package.
> The resulting log likelihood function is maximized using auglag from the
> Alabama package. The procedure works well for a subset of my data, but if I
> try to use the entire data set I get the following error message.
>
> Error in eigen(a$hessian) : infinite or missing values in 'x'
>
> What's even more confusing is that if I estimate the model for a sample say
> data[1:200,] then there's convergence. If I estimate it for data[1:300, ]
> then I get the error message.
Since there is a missing or infinite value in it?
> But if I estimate the model for
> data[201,300] it once again converges.
data[201,300] is exactly one entry (row 201, column 300).
Uwe Ligges
>
> Can anyone please enlighten me; where does this error stem from and what
> can I do about it?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Kristian
>
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