Katja,
Others on the list have solved the problem. With hindsight, it clearly
appears to be bad practice to return results as locals rather than scalars
(oh yes, I wrote -inequal7-). (Patching this is on the list for -inequal8-
(among other minor things)?)
A more general comment is that -inequal7- is maybe not the best suited
piece of software for bootstrapping the gini. In resampling-based
inference, computation speed can be an issue, and as it computes a long
series of different indices at each iteration, -inequal7- will tend to be
slow. To put it differently, it will waste time computing irrelevant
statistics when you are only interested in the Gini.
I suggest you consider -ineqerr- that does the bootstrapping for you
(findit -ineqerr-). For a faster inequality measures calculator (but,
sorry, not the Gini at present), you may want to have a look too at
-fastineq- on http://www.vankerm.net/stata/.
Good luck
Philippe
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