--- Anne Resende wrote:
> 3)What is my aim? As I told I need to end up with one variable in
> order to run the bootstrap.
> I want to the create the program mymean and then run:
> bootstrap r(eq2), reps(#) seed(#) : mymean loghw
Why do you need to write a program for that? I can think of two
ways of doing that that won't require you to write your own
program:
*-------------- begin example --------------------
sysuse nlsw88, clear
gen lnw = ln(wage)
bootstrap m=r(mean), reps(100) : sum lnw, meanonly
reg lnw, vce(bootstrap, reps(100))
*---------------- end example --------------------
Anyhow, if you want to write a program to pass on to -bootstrap-
then the results should definately not be returned as a variable.
So even if I misunderstood your aim, and you need to write a
program, then an -egen- function would in all likelihood still be
inappropriate for what you want to do.
If the example above does not do what you want to do, can you
explain again what it is exactly that you want to do?
Hope this helps,
Maarten
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Institut fuer Soziologie
Universitaet Tuebingen
Wilhelmstrasse 36
72074 Tuebingen
Germany
http://home.fsw.vu.nl/m.buis/
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