Re: st: Can -bootstrap- handle vectors

[Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com>]

Helps lots!  Thanks!

On 13 August 2011 21:12, Matthew White <mwhite@poverty-action.org> wrote:
> I don't know of a way to use Mata to put numeric values in a local.
> st_local only works with string values, I think. But you could return
> each element of a Mata vector to separate Stata scalars. Say X is a
> Mata column vector:
> mata: st_numscalar("r(rows)", rows(X))
> forvalues row = 1/`r(rows)' {
>    mata: st_numscalar("r(v`row')", X[`row', 1])
> }
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Alex Olssen <alex.olssen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Statalisters,
>>
>> It seems to me that -bootstrap- cannot handle vectors?  Is this
>> correct?  If so, does anyone know if there is a way to use a loop to
>> send each element of a Mata vector to a separate Stata local so I can
>> bootstrap the vector element by element?
>>
>> Sample code is below.  All help greatly appreciated!
>>
>> ************************************************************
>> capture program drop my_vector
>> program define my_vector, rclass
>>        syntax varlist
>>        mata: m_my_vector("`varlist'")
>>        return list
>>        return add
>> end
>>
>> capture mata mata drop m_my_vector()
>> mata:
>> void m_my_vector(string scalar varlist)
>> {
>>        real matrix data, data_cov
>>        st_view(data, ., varlist)
>>        data_cov = variance(data)
>>        st_matrix("r(v1)", data_cov[., 1])
>>        st_numscalar("r(v11)", data_cov[1, 1])
>> }
>> end
>>
>> sysuse auto, clear
>> my_vector price length weight
>> di r(v11)
>> matrix list r(v1)
>>
>> bootstrap r(v11), reps(200) seed(13082011): my_vector price length weight
>> bootstrap r(v1), reps(200) seed(13082011): my_vector price length weight
>> ************************************************************
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Alex Olssen
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