st: Re: Re: Construct Null Datasets through Bootstrap Resampling

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

Just a quick follow-up...  You will probably want to set the random number 
seed prior to running scramble.  Also, I neglected to use quietly statements 
and therefore scramble will generate useless messages, so you should 
probably always call it as -quietly scramble-

Michael

p.s. sorry about forgetting to shorten to original post in my prior message

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:54 PM
Subject: st: Re: Construct Null Datasets through Bootstrap Resampling



> It seems like you want something similar to -permute- except you want to 
> permute all of the variables, not just one.  Here's a short program that 
> will scramble all of the variables in your dataset.  You can usel this 
> within your own program and perform a monte carlo simulation (check 
> out -simulate-).
<snip> 
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