RE: st: Re: new sampling problem

["John allfish" <j_w11111@hotmail.co.uk>]

The list of numbers will work, however I want the program to run without me 
specifying the numbers. These come from another part of the work I am doing 
and I want them to be called into samplepps automatically. I should have 
added that I want to use samplepps to draw random samples of larger than 
existing N. It was suggested that gsample but I am using version 8.0 and it 
would not work.

Thanks,
John



> From: "Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Subject: st: Re: sampling problem
> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:21:53 -0400
>
> ...
> I'm not sure what else you may want to do between calls to samplepps, but 
> it seems like you may want to use a forvalues or foreach loop.  If you just 
> want to create 5 new variables resulting from repeated calls to samplepps, 
> then something like this may work:
>
> local vals "100 240 300 350 412"
> foreach val of local vals {
>   samplepps sample`val', ncases(`val')
> }
>
> of course, you would need to add in any other options you want to the 
> samplepps command and you may want to name the new variables differently, 
> which you could do by creating a counter in the loop.
>
> By the way, you shouldn't include an old message in your posting -- please 
> follow the faq.
>
> Michael Blasnik
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John allfish" <j_w11111@hotmail.co.uk>
> To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 10:50 AM
> Subject: st: sampling problem
>
>
>
> > I have been trying a number of ways of sampling. I want to use the 
> > samplepps command which has the following syntax:
> >
> > samplepps newvar, withrepl size(varname) ncases(integer)
> >
> > What I want to do is to create a program which will run this command 
> > several times. The problem is that I want the ncases(integer) to be 
> > different. I have a vector of values which I want ncases to take on. So I 
> > run I may have 5 different values in my vector. I want to run samplepps 
> > five times with ncases taking on the value of the first row of the vector 
> > for the first time, the second row the second time and so on.
> >
> > Is there any quick way of doing this or do I just have to manually enter 
> > the number each time?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > John
> <snip>
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