Mahmoud,
I haven't followed all of the conversation. Just a few notes:
2008/8/19 Mahmoud Abd-El-Aal <[email protected]>:
> bootstrap (location: mean=r(mean)), rep(1000): sum var2,detail
> then i want to save all the bootstrap samples, the 1000 samples in order
> to compare each individual mean to var1 single mean
Firstly, you don't need the detail option in your bootstrap command.
You can save the bootstrap results by using the -saving- option, see
-help bootstrap-. That would be
set seed 123
bootstrap (location: mean=r(mean)), rep(1000) saving(bootstrapsample,
replace): sum var2
You could then open the file bootstrapsample.dta and investigate the
1000 replications.
> Also when running the above command , the P value what does it represent?
It might help you to read the manual entry on -bootstrap-, and/or some
statistics text on the bootstrap technique. This will tell you about
the different confidence intervals that you can calculate after
-bootstrap- (normal based, percentile based, bias corrected). Type
-estat bootstrap, all- after running the bootstrap to see all
confidence intervals.
The P value refers to a test that the original sample mean is equal to
zero, very much like a coefficient test after -regress-. It uses the
estimated standard error from the bootstrap instead of the sample
standard error. A low p-value rejects the hypothesis that the original
sample mean is equal to zero. However, this is based on the normal
approximation. You might find one of the other methods more
appropriate in your circumstances.
> The basic point that i am trying to reach is how many samples from the
> bootstraped ones has a bigger mean than the value of 0.0001218, any
> suggestions?
I showed you how to do this (save the bootstrap replications in a .dta
file), but I am unsure how you would sensibly interpret such a
finding.
Hope this helps,
Eva
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