I have a program that calculates a large number of statistics for each
income quintile in my sample. To make this manageable, I store the
estimates as variables--each statistic that I've calculated is a variable,
and there are 5 observations, one for each quintile. I want to bootstrap
the results, using the bstrap command. But it appears that bstrap only
works for outputs that are scalars. I could break up the variables into
scalars, so that the post command that ends the bootstrap program would be
something like
post `1' (stat1[1]) (stat1[2]) (stat1[3]) (stat1[4]) (stat1[5]) (stat2[1])
(stat2[2]) etc, etc, etc
but that would be incredibly tedious, because there are a lot of statistics.
Is there any way to simplify this by posting variables (or vectors) of
results?
I should note that I'm quite new to Stata programming, so I could be missing
an obvious way to do this.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
-Rob Williams
Professor Roberton C. Williams III
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
on leave, 2002-03 school year at:
The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20036-2188
202-797-6308
fax: 202-797-6181
[email protected]
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/~rwilliam
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