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Boost runmlwin to Stata transmission speed
Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:20 am
by ClayVega
Hi there, I'm using runmlwin to export model estimates from MLwiN to Stata. The models in MLwiN have excellent runtime. However, the speed of transmission back to Stata is somewhat slow. I assume this is probably because I have to add 30 fixed effects. Is it possible to accelerate the speed of MLwiN to Stata? I value your responses.
Re: Boost runmlwin to Stata transmission speed
Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 1:39 pm
by ChrisCharlton
When the model has finished running in MLwiN the various resulting outputs are saved to data files and then read into Stata. If you wanted to speed up this process you could look into whether you could reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred (e.g. by not returning residuals or having shorter MCMC chains). Alternatively you could check whether the drive being using to store temporary files is slow, and if so switch to something faster.