Carl Nelson <[email protected]> has a program that worked with -bootstrap- in
Stata 9 but is not working in Stata 10:
I have an rclass function elasticity to use to bootstrap elasticities after
estimation of a demand system. The bootstrap command that I use is:
bootstrap (income: (etab1) (etab2) (etab3) (etab4)) (price1: (etab11)
(etab12) (etab13) (etab14)) (price2: (etab21) (etab22) (etab23) (etab24))
(price3: (etab31) (etab32) (etab33) (etab34)) (price4: (etab41) (etab42)
(etab43) (etab44)), reps(150) seed(3782956): elasticity
This command runs and reports bootstrap results in stata 9.
In stata 10 the bootstrap iterations run then I get the error insufficient
observations to compute bootstrap standard errors no results will be saved
I searched through the bootstrap ado file and I could not find where this
error is being generated. I also couldn't find any reference to this
difference on the faq.
What changed from 9 to 10, and what do I need to change to get results in
stata 10?
In Stata 9, -bootstrap- failed to properly set -e(sample)- due to excessive
use of -preserve- and -restore-. We fixed this in Stata 10.
The reason I bring this up is that prior to this bug fix, -bootstrap- would
tolerate the generation of non-temporary variables within the prefixed
command. In Stata 10, prefixed commands that generate non-temporary variables
will cause -bootstrap- to post missing values in the replication loop because
the call that generates a non-temporary variable will cause the prefixed
command to exit with an error.
Carl should check his -elasticity- program to see if he is generating any
non-temporary variables.
If not, Carl can run -bootstrap- with the -noisily- option to see what error
message his -elasticity- command is producing. Using -reps(2)- will cut down
on the output.
Carl can write to technical support <[email protected]> with a log of the
output to help track down what is causing the error.
--Jeff
[email protected]
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