Nick,
Is there some way you can extract the column names from e(b) in the return list?
- Bob
Robert A. Yaffee, Ph.D.
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Silver School of Social Work
New York University
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----- Original Message -----
From: Nick Cox <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, February 5, 2009 1:41 pm
Subject: st: RE: which variables are in the model?
To: [email protected]
> Is Maarten Buis' -indeplist- from SSC what you seek?
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Feiveson, Alan H. (JSC-SK311)
>
> I have been running a self-programmed bootstrap resampling scheme using
> -bsample- with one of the xt-regression models. For each iteration of
> the bootstrap, I had been blissfully saving the coefficient estimates
> using e(b) which was supposed to have 11 components. Then I discovered
> that for some iterations, some model terms were dropped for
> collinearity, so for example, b[1,6] in one iteration may not refer to
> the same model term as b[1,6] in another iteration! Furthermore, if a
> current iteration had only 10 terms, then referring to b[1,11] does not
> produce an error, since b[1,11] contains the estimate from the last
> iteration in which all terms were used, etc. To do the correct
> bookkeeping, I need to know exactly which of the original set of 11
> model terms were retained after each estimation. My question is how to
> know this? There doesn't appear to be anything in -ereturn- that gives
> me this information. It is true that e(rank) tells me how many terms
> were used, but it !
> doesn't say which of the 11 terms were dropped (if any).
>
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