MXITER Subcommand (AREG command)

MXITER specifies the maximum number of iterations of the estimation process.

• If MXITER is not specified, the maximum number of iterations defaults to 10.
• The specification on MXITER can be any positive integer.
• Iteration stops either when the convergence criterion is met or when the maximum is reached, whichever occurs first. The convergence criterion is set on the TSET CNVERGE command. The default is 0.001.

Example

AREG VARY WITH VARX
  /MXITER=5.

• In this example, AREG generates Prais-Winsten estimates and associated statistics with a maximum of 5 iterations.