Patrice Yee Chong San
>
> I have a balanced panel data of N=1130 firms over T=36 time
> periods and
> 15 explanatory variables. What I plan to do now is some sort
> of 'bootstrapping.
>
> I want to create a random sample of n<N firms with
> replacement in such
> a way that i also pick their entire corresponding time
> series at the
> same time. And also, i want to ensure that a particular
> firm can be in
> the sample more than once.
>
> 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.
> I have been through the manuals and FAQ but cannot find anything on
> bootstrapping from panel data. The goal is to do my
> analyses on this
> sample and to repeat this over and over and then to compare results.
>
> Is there any way to do this? The solution is eluding me.
I don't know whether what you are proposing
is a valid procedure, but if the Stata documentation
doesn't answer the question, then the wider literature
may help.
As for a Stata way of doing this, this may help: your data
are currently in a long shape, so you could do whatever
you do for all panels and store each result of interest in a variable
with the same value within each panel. Then -reshape-
to wide so that each panel is mapped into one observation
and take samples with replacement from that data set.
Nick
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