Date:         Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:08:11 -0400
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Subject:      NLMIXED Versus Proc Mixed
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HI Guys:
I am running a bivariate model in SAS using proc mixed and it runs great
and in a couple of seconds. What I would like to do is to reproduce these
same results in NLMIXED.

What I am finding is that it runs forever even with a single quadrature
point. I have tried taking the values I get from Proc mixed with ML option
and using these as starting values in NLMIXED but I get 'NO VALID
PARAMETER POINTS FOUND:.

Why does Proc Mixed give instant results yet NLMIXED takes exponentially
longer or does not run at all on the same dataset.

thanks
Francis