Verifying the Solution from a Nonlinear Solver: A Case Study

By Bruce D. McCullough, Hrishikesh D. Vinod. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Statistics and Probability

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Do Economics Journal Archives Promote Replicable Research (2008, unknown): “McCullough and Vinod (2004) wondered whether other journals would follow suit.”
The Impact of Microcredit on the Poor in Bangladesh: Revisiting the Evidence (2014, unknown): “13 The apparent small differences in the underlying data, as well as subtle differences among nonlinear estimation packages (McCullough & Vinod, 2003), probably explain the imperfections in the match.”
Estimation of Random-Coefficient Demand Models: Two Empiricists' Perspective (2014, unknown): “Following the recommendations of McCullough and Vinod (2003), we discuss a number of diagnostics regarding firstand second-order optimality conditions at the terminal points of the nonlinear searches.”
The influence of hidden researcher decisions in applied microeconomics (2020, unknown): “ENDNOTES 1 And in the case of McCullough and Vinod (2003), economics papers rarely report the software or estimation command they used in the text of the paper, despite evidence here that it can be consequential.”
Corrections to the Mann et. al. (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemispheric Average Temperature Series (2003, methodology): “In our view, if the public archive does not permit the replication of a multiproxy study, then it should be proscribed for use in policy formation [McCullough and Vinod, 2003].”
Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, unknown): “…problems with certain numerical maximization algorithms may produce misleading estimates (Knittel and Metaxoglou 2011; Knittel and Metaxoglou 2013); McCullough and Vinod (2003) contains a more general discussion of robustness and replication failures in nonlinear maximization methods. selective…”
Open Access to Data: An Ideal Professed but Not Practised (2014, background): “…policies that rely on encouraged data-sharing upon request rather than enforcement mechanisms often fail and, thus, are not sufficient to satisfy the ideal standard of data availability (Dewald et al., 1986; Feigenbaum and Levy, 1993; McCullough et al., 2008; McCullough and Vinod, 2003).”
Reliable estimation of random coefficient logit demand models (2017, background): “McCullough and Vinod (2003) illustrate the importance of carefully verifying the candidate extreme points from a nonlinear solver.”
Lessons from the JMCB Archive (2006, methodology): “We chose an issue of this journal and attempted to replicate all the articles for which there was an entry in the archive, and the IJEB has published our results (two successful, one partially successful): Harrison (2003), McCullough (2003), and McGeary (2003).”