week 8 Irish

week 8 Irish

by Amanda Irish -
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See attached, thanks!

In reply to Amanda Irish

Re: week 8 Irish

by Maria Glymour -

Very nicely done Amanda!  And nice substantive example.

One suggestion: usually even selection variables (eg S1, S2) are assumed to be determined with error, ie they are not a deterministic function of X and Y but rather a function of X, Y, and some random noise.  This would generally weaken the magnitude of selection bias.

For calculation of type 1 error rate under the null, you need to save your estimated coefficients and CIs or p-vals from each bootstrap replication (this is an option in the bootstrap command) and see what fraction of the iterations have a p<.05. But yes, you are probably right that you'd always have a 100% type 1 error rate.

Finally, we usually bootstrap replicates w/ the same sample size as the original sample.