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st: RE: RE: sample partition issue & programming


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: sample partition issue & programming
Date   Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:51:11 -0000

In addition to other solutions, check out an 
existing -egen- function -rndsub()- in the 
-egenmore- package on SSC. 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Maarten Buis
 
> To sample approx. 80% you could make a selection variable by: 
> -gen select = uniform()>.2- and than -regress price mpg 
> foreign if select==1- to run a regression on the selected 
> part only, and use for instance -predict yhat if select == 0- 
> to get to the statistics you want. Have a look at the 
> -simulate- command to repeat the procedure and store estimates.

Yang Li

> I am required to randomly partition my sample into two groups 
> with 80% and
> 20% split, and run the normal OLS regression on the 80% set (report R
> square, Parameters, significance indicators, MSE/(var 
> expected)). Then for
> each of the observation in my 20% set, I need to use the parameters
> calculated (from the 80% set) to produce and report the 
> estimation error
> (for the dependent variable).  This process is required to 
> run 100 times.
> 
> I encountered the following difficulties:
> 1. how to keep both (80% and 20%) partitioned sample for 
> further estimation
> (I can only find the command "sample", but it drops the 
> observations and
> does not allow to maintain the rest 20% for further test).
> 2. how to output the specific estimation results (e.g. R 
> square of 'reg')
> into a spreadsheet (e.g. Excel) (I can assess the estimated 
> results stored
> in e( ), but how can I output it automatically to a Excel for 
> report purpose).
> 3. how to do it automatically 100 times (How could I store the each
> partitioned sample (for 100 times) separately? Is a do-file enough to
> handle this?)

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