Yasin Asar

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How can I solve non-convergence of maximum likelihood (ML) estimator in Poisson regression?

I am using iteratively weighted least squares algorithm to obtain ML estimates in Poisson regression. Due to the factorial term in the log-likelihood equation, I can not compute the log-likelihood...

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What is a start-up value effect?

In the design of a Monte Carlo simulation, I have seen the following sentences in some of the articles: "To reduce eventual start-up value effects, we discard the first 200 observations." Can...

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