st: Re: posting bs stats

[baum <baum@bc.edu>]

--On Monday, August 19, 2002 2:33 -0400 Olena wrote:

> I need to bootstrap a large number of statistics, actually, it is 5
> statistics,  calculated for the different year-category groups of the
> data  set. Up to now I have no luck in obtaining bootstrap estimates for
> the number  of statistics larger than 4.
> I use the following program, which works fine for 4 statistics :
> program define jobflo
> 	version 6.0
> 	if "`1'" == "?" {
> 		global S_1 "POS_98 NEG_98 POS_99 NEG_99"
> 		exit
> 	}
> local i=1998
>  while `i'<=1999 {
> summarize pos if year == `i'
>  local bf`i' = r(sum)
> summarize neg if year == `i'
>  local cd`i' = r(sum)
> summarize xit if year == `i'
> local ef`i' = r(sum)
> local gh`i'  = `bf`i' ' / `ef`i''
>  local jk`i' = `cd`i' '/`ef`i''
>  local i = `i'+1
> }
> 	post `1' `gh1998' `jk1998'  `gh1999' `jk1999'
'
You must enclose each argument to be posted in the post command with 
parentheses,

post `1' (`gh1998') (`jk1998')  (`gh1999') (`jk1999')

This is not very well documented (on-line help shows the parens in the 
syntax doiagram, but the 'typical use' does not show an example of this), 
but the last time I had a problem with post, this was the solution provided 
by tech support.

Kit

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