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Re: st: bsample and convergence


From   "Ashim Kapoor" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: bsample and convergence
Date   Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:13:21 +0530

Would -capture- command serve your purpose sir ?

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Oliver Rivero-Arias
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have prepared a looping exercise using the command "while" where in each loop bootstrap samples from an original dataset (using bsample) and a multinomial logit (mlogit) in each bootstrap sample are conducted. I have programmed 5000 loops and each loop saves the probabilities of being in a particular category of my categorical dependent variable.
>
> However, in some bootstraps samples the multinomial logit does not converge (error r(430)) and therefore stops all my simulations. Is there a code I could use to tell STATA that in case a particular multinomial logit from a bootstrap sample does not converge, just discard this loop and draw another bootstrap sample?
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Oliver Rivero-Arias
>
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