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> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Clive Nicholas
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: st: bootstrap weighted mean
Clive,
Thanks. My concern is that is seems too easy to get around the weight
restriction in -bootstrap- and therefore must be wrong.
Searching through the Statalist achieves I came across a posting by Jeff
Pitblado ( http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-03/msg00894.html ) on
using a very similar trick to get -statsby- to accept weights. At the end,
he cautions,
"As a final note, let me just warn against using this trick with -
bootstrap-,-permute-, and -jknife-. The result will most definitely not
be what you would expect."
I guess I don't understand bootstrapping well enough to understand why this
trick does not work as expected.
Scott
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