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problems with estimation

PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:53 pm
by bigbigben
I am using Dynare to estimate a DSGE model (MLE). I choose the default searching algorithm by Sims by setting mode_compute=4. The trouble is that some times I got log-likelihood is positive. What does that mean? The possibility is higher than one?

PostPosted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:27 am
by glucke
It's OK, because likelihood is density. It's not probabylity for continius distribution function. It could be ilustrated by comaring of normal density(at point of mean) with standart deviation equal to 10^-2.