Block Bootstrap — blockBootSample • BMisc

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

blockBootSample(data, idname)

Arguments

data: data.frame from which you want to bootstrap
idname: column in data which contains an individual identifier

Value

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

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() }
#> Loading required namespace: plm
data("LaborSupply", package="plm")
bbs <- blockBootSample(LaborSupply, "id")
nrow(bbs)
#> [1] 5320
head(bbs$id)
#> [1] 1 1 1 1 1 1