--- Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm running a weighted Cox regression within a bootstrap program.
> If I conduct the analysis program, step by step outside the bootstrap
>
> it runs just fine.
> However, when I conduct the exact same analysis within the bootstrap
> program, I get the error message:
>
> "Bootstrap replications (50)
> ----+--- 1 ---+--- 2 ---+--- 3 ---+--- 4 ---+--- 5
> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 50
> insufficient observations to compute bootstrap standard errors
> no results will be saved
> r(2000);"
>
> What I'd like to learn is: how can I discover what happened to those
> observations during the bootstrap program? Note that these
> observations are not dropped during the manual analysis outside the
> bootstrap program.
>
> I've illustrated my code below, using an adapted version of Stata's
> system data file cancer.dta.
One step you can take is to call the program -msm- you created, outside
-bootstrap- and see if it works, you can call it a second time and you
will see that it no longer works because several variables are
-generate-ed which already exist (where created during the first call
to -msm-). How did I know to call -msm- twice? I made the same mistake
you made many many times... One solution is to put the variables and
weights in temporary variables, as is shown in the example below.
Another usefull debuging tool is to first set trace on before calling
-msm-, and it is probably useful to first set the tracedepth to 2 or 3,
to avoid being swamped with output.
*---------------- begin example that works ------------
sysuse cancer, replace
ren died failed
tab drug
gen newdrug=0
replace newdrug=1 if drug==2|drug==3
drop drug
rename newdrug drug
tab drug
gen yeartreated=2007
gen monthtreated=10
gen daytreated=05
gen addyear=0
replace addyear=1 if studytime>=12 & studytime<24
replace addyear=2 if studytime>=24 & studytime<36
replace addyear=3 if studytime>=36
gen addmonths=0
replace addmonths=studytime-12 if studytime>=12 & studytime<24
replace addmonths=studytime-24 if studytime>=24 & studytime<36
replace addmonths=studytime-36 if studytime>36
gen yeardied=2007
replace yeardied= yeartreated + addyear if addyear!=0
list yeartreated yeardied addyear
gen monthdied=10
replace monthdied = monthtreated + addmonths if addmonths!=0
list monthtreated monthdied addmonths
replace yeardied=yeardied+1 if monthdied>=12 & monthdied<24
gen newmonthdied=monthdied
replace newmonthdied=monthdied-12 if monthdied>=12 & monthdied<24
replace newmonthdied=monthdied-24 if monthdied>=24
drop monthdied
gen monthdied = newmonthdied
drop newmonthdied
gen daydied=05
replace monthdied=monthdied+studytime if studytime<12
replace yeardied=yeardied+1 if monthdied>12
replace monthdied =monthdied-12 if monthdied>12
gen datedx = mdy(monthtreated, daytreated, yeartreated)
format datedx %d
gen datedied = mdy(monthdied, daydied, yeardied)
format datedied %d
sort datedied
list datedx datedied studytime
* PART 2
capture program drop msm
program define msm, rclass
tempname p_tcm_ALL p_notcm_ALL p_ALL p_noALL wt_stab_ALL
* fit the full model used in Traditional Cox
logit drug age
*estimate probability of treatment
predict `p_tcm_ALL'
gen `p_notcm_ALL' = 1-`p_tcm_ALL' if drug==0
*want p(drug) for both users and nonusers
replace `p_tcm_ALL' =`p_notcm_ALL' if drug==0
*create stabilized weight==P(A)/P(A|W)
logit drug
predict `p_ALL'
gen `p_noALL'=1-`p_ALL' if drug==0
replace `p_ALL' = `p_noALL' if drug==0
gen `wt_stab_ALL'=`p_ALL'/`p_tcm_ALL'
* stset the data
stset datedied [iweight=`wt_stab_ALL'], failure(failed) ///
origin(datedx) scale(30.4375) /*wt: stabilized IPTW*/
* cox
stcox drug
indeplist, local
foreach var of varlist `X' {
return scalar `var' = _b[`var']
}
end
set seed 12358
bootstrap drug=r(drug), eform reps(50): msm
*---------------------- end example that works -----------------
(For more on how to use examples I sent to the Statalist, see
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/stata/exampleFAQ.html )
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
visiting address:
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+31 20 5986715
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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