RE: st: Bootstrapping: Comparing the difference between means

["Fleming, Fiona M" <f.fleming@imperial.ac.uk>]

There is Scott! Too much time spent looking at the same thing for too long.... Many thanks for your quick response and helpful advice.

Fiona

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Merryman
Sent: 03 April 2013 17:45
To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: st: Bootstrapping: Comparing the difference between means

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Fleming, Fiona M <f.fleming@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> simulate diffa_1=r(mu_1) diffa_2 = (r(mu_2), reps(100) seed(12345): 
> mydiffa

There is a stray "(" before r(mu_2)

Also the terms in the -simulate- need to match the return scalars in the command mydiffa, that is: -simulate diffa_1=r(diffa_1) diffa_2 =
r(diffa_2) ...-


Scott
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