Dear Statalisters,
I am facing again the lack of Stata manuals...
When the "cluster" option in the "bootstrap" command is specified, how
is the resampling implemented?
My guess is that resampling occurs only within clusters. Namely, that
given N observed data which constitute the sampe and r clusters in
which the N observations are grouped, r simultaneous resamplings occur
(each B times, number of replications specified) where the resampling
for the rth cluster uses only observations which are included in the
cluster. Am I right?
Many thanks for any contribution on this.
(any reference on this is very apprecciated as well)
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Gianluca Cafiso
Research Fellow, Economics Department-University of Catania.
Corso Italia 55, Catania, Italy.
e-mail: [email protected]
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