Scott Merryman replied:
> Thanks. My concern is that is seems too easy to get around the weight
> restriction in -bootstrap- and therefore must be wrong.
>
> Searching through the Statalist achieves I came across a posting by Jeff
> Pitblado ( http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2004-03/msg00894.html )
> on
> using a very similar trick to get -statsby- to accept weights. At the
> end,
> he cautions,
>
> "As a final note, let me just warn against using this trick with -
> bootstrap-,-permute-, and -jknife-. The result will most definitely not
> be what you would expect."
>
> I guess I don't understand bootstrapping well enough to understand why
> this
> trick does not work as expected.
You're not the only one.
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