Re: st: BC confidence interval

[Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com>]

Something is VERY wrong with your bootstrap. The fact that your bias
is 20 times greater than your standard error is troublesome, to say
the least.

We could probably say more about your problem if you provided the
complete syntax and output, but since -cluster()- option is mentioned,
I suspect that Stata does not compute the necessary acceleration
coefficients that are based on the jackknife pass through the data
before the bootstrap. In turn, the jackknife is not making sense since
the data are not i.i.d.

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Xu, Haiyong <HXu@mednet.ucla.edu> wrote:
> I was using bootstrap to get the confidence interval. Stata gave me the normal-based and percentile-based CI, but bias-corrected CI is missing. Does someone know how to get the bc CI? Here is the output. Thanks.
>                          (Replications based on 13428 clusters in cluster_id)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             |    Observed               Bootstrap
>             |       Coef.       Bias    Std. Err.  [95% Conf. Interval]
> -------------+----------------------------------------------------------------
>       p2005 |   102.91307  -29.08997    1.582254    99.81191   106.0142   (N)
>             |                                       71.44293   76.52544   (P)
>             |                                              .          .  (BC)
>       p2006 |   95.265941   27.46531   2.5908633    90.18794   100.3439   (N)
>             |                                       117.8621   125.2468   (P)
>             |                                              .          .  (BC)
>       p2007 |   101.33245   17.45957   4.4932015    92.52593    110.139   (N)
>             |                                        112.169    126.074   (P)
>             |                                              .          .  (BC)
>     d_06_05 |  -7.6471301   56.55528    2.275321   -12.10668  -3.187583   (N)
>             |                                       44.79739   51.67213   (P)
>             |                                              .          .  (BC)
>     d_07_05 |   -1.580624   46.54955   3.9348652   -9.292818    6.13157   (N)
>             |                                       39.12644   50.84778   (P)
>             |                                              .          .  (BC)
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (N)    normal confidence interval
> (P)    percentile confidence interval
> (BC)   bias-corrected confidence interval
>
> Haiyong
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