topic MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied in SAS Procedures

MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

spraynardz90 — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:47:30 GMT

I am using some logistic regression testing and I have received this message.

Not quite sure what this means...

My coefficients are pleasingly significant. I performed an AUTO CORR command to see whether autocorrelation could corrupt my results however the results are good. So is this message "Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied" normal?

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

PGStats — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:12:09 GMT

See .

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

spraynardz90 — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:23:51 GMT

Thanks very much. Could you please help me solve below? I have ensured my dependent variable is either 1 or 0 and my independents are different.

I received this message when performing some of my testing:

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

PGStats — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:32:07 GMT

The screen image is very fuzzy, I can't read everything. The error says that among the observations where all variables are not missing (only those are considered) the dependent variable always has the same value. This could be caused by all the logs involved, if missing values were generated when calculating them, in a previous step.

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

spraynardz90 — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 07:15:42 GMT

I have received a warning message saying "ridging has failed to improve the log likelihood" and the validity of the fit is questionable.

I have four different dummy variables in this regression, the dependent, and three control independents. Do you think this could cause the error?

I have checked for duplicates, blanks in the dummies, and auto correlation, all seem to be OK

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

PGStats — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:30:11 GMT

I would start by looking at the table produced by

proc freq data=yourData;

tables logsd*yourdum1*yourdum2*yourdum3*yourdum4 / list nocum nopercent;

run;

and check for combinations that are not well represented in your data.

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

ved_sharma — Wed, 20 Jan 2016 11:31:55 GMT

Hi,

I was searching for the meaining of GCONV=1E-8 which led me to this post. However I am not able to see your reply. I have attached the screenshot for your reference. Thanks in advance for your help.

Thanks,

Ved

Re: MEANING? Convergence criterion (GCONV=1E-8) satisfied

SteveDenham — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 15:54:49 GMT

This note means that the relative gradient (max of the first derivatives wrt to the fixed effect parameters)/ absolute value of the objective function has reached a near zero value (0.00000001), thus you are at a maximum/minimum/saddle point of the objective function. Changing parameter values won't improve the fit to the data.

Steve Denham