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Re: st: dropped observations in bootstrap


From   Maarten buis <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: dropped observations in bootstrap
Date   Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:06:54 +0100 (BST)

--- Maarten wrote:
> > 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... 

--- Michael McCulloch <[email protected]> wrote:
> My temporary elation is tempered by the nagging discomfort of not 
> knowing why the use of temporary variables resolved the issue. I'll 
> proceed with your suggested -trace- approach. Many thanks, Michael

So, your program needs to create a number of variables. It leaves those
variables behind after it has finished. With -bootstrap- you run your
program multiple times (as many as you specify in the -reps()-
options).  So now when you try to run the program multiple times, -msm-
tries to -generate- variables that already exist (were made by the
previous call to -msm-). This causes errors, as a result it returns no
results to -bootstrap- causing to display red X instead green dots.

Hope this helps,
Maarten

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Maarten L. Buis
Department of Social Research Methodology
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Boelelaan 1081
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

visiting address:
Buitenveldertselaan 3 (Metropolitan), room Z434

+31 20 5986715

http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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