sysuse auto, clear
bootstrap r(lambda), reps(50) : lambda rep f
HTH
Martin
_______________________
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Antonakis" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: st: RE: lambda--p-value
Hi Nick:
How does one use the bootstrap with your lamda ado file? I am not
following what you have suggested.
Thanks.
John.
Nick Cox wrote:
> -lambda- on SSC (please explain where user-written stuff you refer to
> comes from) was originally written, I think, because someone on the list
> asked how to calculate the beast. As I recall, a P-value calculation is
> problematic as well as messy, as the applicability of the theory to
> small samples is a matter of faith. Hence getting a bootstrap confidence
> interval and see if it straddles zero is surely the way to go. That
> requires no extra programs.
>
> The mention of SPSS is not decisive here. Measures of association like
> this proliferate in the literature like mushrooms in the dark and
> conceal as much as they reveal. StataCorp's prejudice has long been that
> it is better to think in terms of modelling commands.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> John Antonakis
>
> Does anyone have code for calculating lambda (nominal to nomial
> association) as well as the associated approximate p-value. I know of
> the lambda ado file (by Nick Cox); however, is there anything else out
> there?
>
> It is strange that STATA doesn't have this measure in the tab
> function--this is something that is "canned" in SPSS.
>
>
> *
> * For searches and help try:
> * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
*
* For searches and help try:
* http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search
* http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
