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Re: st: Bootstrapped Paired-Samples (Dependent) T-Test


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Bootstrapped Paired-Samples (Dependent) T-Test
Date   Thu, 27 Jan 2011 16:39:43 +0000

I don't see a difference or a difficulty. Bootstrapping resamples from
a set of observations (cases, records, rows in dataset) and paired
values for two variables remain paired.

Nick

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Hartman, Rob <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to apply bootstrapping to a paired samples t-test.  I'm not aware of a straightforward application of this in Stata.  My impulse is to treat the t-test as a special case of regression, and thus use regress with a dummy predictor and bootstrapping of clustered standard errors, where the clustering is on the particular matched pair.
>
> Is there a reason why this does not make sense in principle or would not work in practice? Any other workarounds? Am I making it harder than it has to be?

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