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st: Re: inequal7 and bs


From   "Steichen" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Re: inequal7 and bs
Date   Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:04:02 -0400

Katja H�lsch writes:

> I want to bootstrap e.g. the gini coefficient with inequal7 in Stata8. In
version 7 I used
> the command line
>
> bs "inequal7 i11101" "S_4", reps(10)
>
> and it worked.
>
> Now the command line seems to have change for Stata8 as it should be
>
> bs "command" exp_list [, reps(#)]
>
> What I have tried is
>
> bs "inequal7 i11101" S_4, reps(10)
>
> Then Stata responds:
> S_4 not found
> error in statistic: S_4
>
> I also tried
>
> bs "inequal7 i11101" r(gini), reps(10)
>
> and Stata responds:
> type mismatch
> error in statistic: r(gini)
>
> Of course I could use
>
> version 7
> bs "inequal7 i11101" "S_4", reps(10)
>
> but isn't there a way to do it in Stata8?

Katja --

This will work in Stata8 if you put a $ before S_4

     . bs "inequal7 i11101" $S_4, reps(10)


The problem with

     . bs "inequal7 i11101" r(gini), reps(10)

is that the author of -inequal7- returned the values as locals, rather than
scalars, and they appear as string values rather than numeric values when
evaluated via -r()-, thus the type mismatch.

-- Tom


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