Dear all,

I am running a multilevel model for my paper (individuals nested in countries). For the base model and the random intercepts model, everything goes well. Yet, while trying a random slopes model, Stata keeps stuck at "Refining starting values:". I've waited for hours - nothing happens. I checked beforehand manually which variables were suitable to include as having random slopes with an lrtest.

The code is the following:

xtmelogit csdp solecntatt townatt cntryatt euatt cntryeuatt immcont dismoscow expbor nuclweap gender age education vccnteu rela employment religion || country: solecntatt townatt cntryatt cntryeuatt immcont gender age education vccnteu employment, or var

My dependent variable is binary, hence the odds ratios.

Is there something I am doing wrong?

Best,
Harry