st: Bootstrapping a vector, no results?

[mariaabreu <ma405@cam.ac.uk>]

Dear all,

I am trying to bootstrap a vector of statistics generated by mvprobit, using
my own user-written programme. To do this I am using the following code:


capture program drop mymvprobit
program define mymvprobit, eclass

.... (several calculations resulting in row vector m_all...)

ereturn post m_all
ereturn local cmd="bootstrap"

end


clear all
use fullsample.dta, clear

bootstrap _b, reps(50): mymvprobit


The programme above works and I get no error messages, the line with dots
appears and gets to 50, but there are no bootstrap results, the programme
just ends. This only happens with vector output. If I pass the statistics
individually using an r-class command, I do get the bootstrap results. 

Even more strangely, I followed the advice in the Stata FAQ "How do I
boostrap a vector of results", and have run the exact same code in that
example:

capture program drop myreg
 program myreg, eclass
	tempname bb
	quietly regress mpg turn
	matrix `bb'=e(b)
	ereturn post `bb'
	ereturn local cmd="bootstrap"
	 
 end

clear
sysuse auto
set seed 12345
bootstrap _b, reps(50) nowarn: myreg 

...and the same thing happens, there are no bootstrap results. The line with
dots appears and that is that. There is nothing stored in e(b_bs) etc. The
only thing that is different is that the above code is written for Stata
12.0, while I am using Stata 11.0. Could that be the reason?

Any help would be much appreciated! What am I missing?





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