RE: st: svy bootstrap

["Michael Palmer" <Michael.Palmer@anu.edu.au>]

Thank you for your response. Your explanation makes sense and I'll be sure to cite your paper. But I'm not exactly sure how I might rewrite the program so that it accepts pw. Do you happen to have any example programs that you could send me or better yet offer any advice on how to rewrite my program?  

Best regards, 

Michael Palmer
PhD Candidate 
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health 
The Australian National University 
Ph. 6125 0538
M. 0437 867 940

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From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Stas Kolenikov
Sent: Monday, 7 March 2011 3:24 PM
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: svy bootstrap

The command -mean- had difficulties understanding what the variable name was. It was expecting a variable name, but -r(prod2)- was not a variable. Of course it is not a factor variable or a time series lagged variable, but that's the best error message Stata could send to you, given that nobody would put anything but variable names after -mean-.

To make your program work with -bs4rw- or -svy, vce(bootstrap)-, you need to rewrite it so that it accepts [pw] or [iw] and runs all estimation commands with those weights... and produces something reasonable in the end. Then you can run -bs4rw (prod2 = r(prod2) ), rw( bsw* ) : twopart [pw=original weight]- to obtain your bootstrap standard errors. (I would not trust 50 replicates that much, and it should be pretty easy to increase this number; it does not look like you have any extraordinary difficult computations within your
program.)

I see that you found my -bsweights- command useful, and I hope you will cite my SJ paper documenting this command.

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Michael Palmer <Michael.Palmer@anu.edu.au> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> I am trying to bootstrap standard errors in a two-part model using 
> complex survey data. The first model is a logit and the second a log 
> linear model of expenditures. From the below do file I get the 
> following error message. Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>  bsweights bsw, reps(40) n(-1)
>  svyset [pweight=psindwt], strata(domain) psu(commcode) vce(bootstrap)
> bsrweight(bsw*)
> . svy: mean r(prod2)
> (running mean on estimation sample)
> factor variables and time-series operators not allowed an error 
> occurred when bootstrap executed mean r(101);
>

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