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Re: st: Postlist for bootstrap


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject   Re: st: Postlist for bootstrap
Date   Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:11:21 +0100

We can't see your dataset but in

regress sesso eta

-sesso- must be an existing variable, while in

predict sesso

-sesso- must be a new variable name. That won't work therefore.

Nick
[email protected]


On 3 June 2013 16:26, Vincenzo Carrieri <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalisters,
> I am trying to implement bootstrap estimations of standard errors for
> concentration indexes but I get an error like: the variable "sesso"
> (name of the first variable that I use in the regression) was not
> found. I think that the problem is mostly on the use of postfile but I
> cannot find the solution.
>
> Here an example of what I did using just few variables.
>
> I first using data:
>
> use "C:\Users\User\Desktop\TEST.dta", replace
>
> Then I Declare variable names and filename of dataset where results
> will be stored
>
> postfile test2 my ciy m01 b01 ci01 using
> "C:\Users\User\Desktop\TEST.DTA",replace
>
> Then I launch my programme
>
> capture program drop index
> program define index
> regress sesso eta
> predict sesso
> sum sesso
> scalar my = r(mean)
> sum eta
> scalar m01=r(mean)
>
> tempname my ciy m01 b01  ci01
> sca b01 = _b[eta]
> gen rank=reddito
>
> I compute  concentration indices
>   corr rank sesso        , c
>      sca ciy           = 2*r(cov_12)/my
>   corr rank eta        , c
>      sca ci01           = 2*r(cov_12)/m01
>
> post stak my ciy m01 b01 ci01
>
> end
>
> Up to now everything is ok.
>
>
> Finally I do boostrap:
>
> bootstrap , reps(10) : index
>
> Here I get the error message: variable sesso not found an error
> occurred when bootstrap executed index
>
>
> My code  would continue:
>
> I close the postfile
>
> postclose test2
>
> use "C:\Users\User\Desktop\test.dta", replace
>
> sum my ciy m01 b01 ci01
>
>
> Anyone can help me to understand what is wrong in my bootstrap programming?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Thanks,
>
> Vincenzo
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