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Re: st: bootsrap random number use
From
Stas Kolenikov <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject
Re: st: bootsrap random number use
Date
Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:47:45 -0500
As far as I remember looking at the -bsample- code, which I never
understood, it also sorts the data this or that way when -expand-ing
the bootstrap frequencies.
-- Stas Kolenikov, PhD, PStat (ASA, SSC)
-- Senior Survey Statistician, Abt SRBI
-- Opinions stated in this email are mine only, and do not reflect the
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On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Sergiy Radyakin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Statalist,
>
> suppose I want to bootsrap myself. For a dataset with 74 observations
> to do two bootstrap iterations I would need to pick 2x74=148 random
> numbers, but Stata picks 296. Why?
>
> Thank you, Sergiy Radyakin
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