Hi - I am running Stata 11 on Windows XP and I am implementing a form of multiple testing using a resampling method as described in Westfall & Young's text. Basically, for each iteration the method is:
1)resample the data modified to a joint null situation (I use the Stata -bs- command for this)
2) fit a model to the resampled modified data
3) do a bunch of tests using -test-
4) save the test results.
These operations are identical for each iteration, yet the time per iteration increases roughly linearly until it becomes prohibitive to continue.
If I stop after a given number of iterations, I must close out all Stata processes before starting again, else the bogged down state still holds.
Previous versions of this that used the estimated coefficients and standard errors without -test- didn't seem to have this problem. So I suspect it has something to do with repeated use of the -test- command. Maybe something needs to be reset or cleared after each iteration?
I tried increasing the memory allocated to Stata, but that didn't seem to help. I would appreciate any suggestions for improving efficiency here.
Al Feiveson
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