--On Monday, October 14, 2002 2:33 -0400 Patrice wrote:
The bstrp command in Stata only  picks individuals/firms i from a
particular period but i want to preserve the time structure of my data.
This will require use of the 'block bootstrap' of Kunsch (1989), see e.g.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/174052.html
To my knowledge this is not available in Stata, but could be implemented.
Apologies for the noninformative header of my last posting.
Thx
Kit
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