Re: st: Re: sampling problem

[Steven Samuels <ssamuels@albany.edu>]

I would only add to Michael's excellent advice: set an explicit seed.  
If you do not, the next time your run your program file, the samples  
will be different.

-Steven

set seed 89018666

> local vals "100 240 300 350 412"
> foreach val of local vals {
>   samplepps sample`val', ncases(`val')
On Jun 19, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Michael Blasnik wrote:

> ...
> I'm not sure what else you may want to do between calls to  
> samplepps, but it seems like you may want to use a forvalues or  
> foreach loop.  If you just want to create 5 new variables resulting  
> from repeated calls to samplepps, then something like this may work:
>
> local vals "100 240 300 350 412"
> foreach val of local vals {
>   samplepps sample`val', ncases(`val')
> }
>
> of course, you would need to add in any other options you want to  
> the samplepps command and you may want to name the new variables  
> differently, which you could do by creating a counter in the loop.
>
> By the way, you shouldn't include an old message in your posting --  
> please follow the faq.
>
> Michael Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John allfish"  
> <j_w11111@hotmail.co.uk>
>
>
>
> > I have been trying a number of ways of sampling. I want to use the  
> > samplepps command which has the following syntax:
> >
> > samplepps newvar, withrepl size(varname) ncases(integer)
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