On 8/29/07, Austin Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
> Erasmo--
> At a minimum, you probably need the cluster() and idcluster() options
> on -bootstrap- (see -help bootstrap-) so you are not resampling from N
> obs, but M clusters (each panel) and there is a new id variable to
> supply to your cluster() option on -xtivreg2-. Something like:
>
> bootstrap, r(1000) cl(gvkey) id(g): xtivreg2 `v', first cl(g) fe i(g)
>
> might work.
> As no doubt Stas Kolenikov will point out, -bootstrap- is not
> guaranteed to solve your problems.
I'll just sob in despair...
Well for this one it may not be that terribly bad, as this is still
some sort of M-estimation/estimating equations setup, and the
regularity conditions such as smooth derivatives may be reasonably
easy to establish, but then I'd be surprised if the bootstrap would
give a result substantially different from -xtivreg2-'s original
sandwich estimator. If it did, then it means the asymptotics is not
there yet for the sample size you have at hand, and then neither is a
satisfactory answer. E.g. if you had 15 clusters then your estimation
procedure is pretty much guaranteed to go astray either way no matter
how many observations you have in each cluster.
--
Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name
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