Generating Random Starting Values

[elmst616]

Hi I'm trying to randomly generate 16 starting values for a nonlinear MRSTAR.

I understand that starting values can be specified by the following:

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param c(1) scalar c(2) scalar c(3) scalar c(4) scalar c(5) scalar c(6) scalar c(7) scalar c(8) scalar c(9) scalar c(10) scalar c(11) scalar c(12) scalar c(13) c(14) scalar c(15) scalar c(16) scalar

But I'm trying to randomly generate starting values without having to redefine each scalar value, everytime I need to update or revise the starting values.

I thought I could do something like the this:

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param c(1) nrnd c(2) nrnd c(3) nrnd c(4) ... c(16) nrnd

But that doesn't seem to work. Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.

[EViews Matt]

You could fill the entire coefficient vector with random numbers:

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nrnd(c)