BMisc (version 1.4.6)

blockBootSample: Block Bootstrap

Description

make draws of all observations with the same id in a panel data context. This is useful for bootstrapping with panel data.

Usage

blockBootSample(data, idname)

Value

data.frame bootstrapped from the original dataset; this data.frame will contain new ids

Arguments

data

data.frame from which you want to bootstrap

idname

column in data which contains an individual identifier

Examples

 if(!requireNamespace("plm")) {
  if(interactive() || is.na(Sys.getenv("_R_CHECK_PACKAGE_NAME_", NA))) {
    stop("package 'plm' is required for this example")
  } else q() }
data("LaborSupply", package="plm")
bbs <- blockBootSample(LaborSupply, "id")
nrow(bbs)
head(bbs$id)