Re: st: Issue with 'bsweights'

[Owen Gallupe <ogallupe@gmail.com>]

Sounds good. Thank you kindly for the advice.

Owen


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
> You're welcome. I typically use -bsweights- with -balanced- option as
> it runs faster that way (fully programmed in Mata, as opposed to
> Stata's -bsample, weight-) and provides minor improvements in biases
> of the estimators.
>
> -- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
> -- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
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>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Owen Gallupe <ogallupe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh! I see now. Somehow I had convinced myself (even after reading your
>> article) that the 'nosvy' option wasn't appropriate in that situation.
>> I now run the following and it appears to work nicely.
>>
>> bsweights bsw, reps(2000) n(-1) seed(22222) nosvy
>> svyset sch [pw=wgt], vce(bootstrap) bsrweight(bsw*)
>> svy: reg dv var1 var2 var3
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Owen
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> -bsweights- is intended to work with the survey data first and
>>> foremost. As I describe in the Stata Journal article supporting the
>>> package, you can specify -nosvy- to run -bsweights- without trying to
>>> pull out the -svy- settings, and treating the data as i.i.d. The
>>> -webuse nhanes2- data comes with -svy- settings glued into the data
>>> set, and -bsweights- is able to pick that information up.
>>>
>>> -- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
>>> -- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
>>> -- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
>>> position of my employer
>>> -- http://stas.kolenikov.name
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Owen Gallupe <ogallupe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Please let me know if there is any other information that might help
>>>> in coming up with a solution.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Owen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Owen Gallupe <ogallupe@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am having an issue using the 'bsweights' command that has me puzzled
>>>>> given the documentation I've read and my own testing. When I try to
>>>>> run the following with my data,
>>>>>
>>>>> bsweights bsw, reps(2000) n(-1) seed(22222)
>>>>>
>>>>> I get an error message:
>>>>>
>>>>> svy is not set
>>>>> r(119);
>>>>>
>>>>> So I set up svyset and then run bsweights again but with the same error message.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I try the exact same command with the nhanes2 data set, it works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> If anyone could set me straight, I would really appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Owen Gallupe
>>>>>
>>>>> p.s., I'm running Stata/SE 12.1 on Windows 7 (64 bit)
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