Hello Austin et al-
Thanks for the two good bits of advice. I am using -cluster- now (it's
where I started, but then talked myself out of it, silly me). To deal
with the fact that I'm looking for proportions, I'm using -bca- for
the confidence intervals:
bootstrap m=r(mean), bca reps(1000) level(90) cluster(session
Subject): ci MyFee if repeated==1
estat bootstrap, all
Not sure why I'm still using -ci- within the bootstrap, instead of
-sum-. O well.
On the face of it, this looks good to me. If you know something about
-bca- which makes it inappropriate for proportions (I'm looking at
proportions in the 3% to 20% range), I'd be grateful to hear about it.
Otherwise, I think I'm good to go. Thanks lots.
-Timothy
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Austin Nichols
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Timothy Dang <[email protected]>:
> Computing the mean across individuals is also a form of ignoring
> heterogeneity, in some sense. But to answer your main question, the
> -strata- option you specified constrains -bootstrap- to draw (for each
> replication) 12 observations with replacement within each subject
> record. This does not seem to address your main concern that
> observations within subject are likely highly correlated, but the
> -cluster- option does. The -svy:tab- command I showed is just a trick
> to get good confidence intervals for proportions; there are others.
>
> See [R] bootstrap or SJ4:312-328 for more detail on -bootstrap-:
> http://www.stata-journal.com/sjpdf.html?articlenum=st0073
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Timothy Dang <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Austin-
> >
> > To answer your question, I'm ignoring learning as being much less
> > important than heterogeneity.
> >
> > I obviously need to think about this more. I haven't used any of the
> > -svy- commands in Stata before, so I'll try to figure them out.
> >
> > Meanwhile, I'm still wondering about the effect of -strata-. Does it
> > cause bootstrap to draw one (independent) sample from each stratum for
> > a replication? Or is it something else?
>
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