Bootstrap sampling

From: John Parke <s197288@student.uq.edu.au> Subject: Bootstrap sampling Date: 8 Jan 1998 03:02:29 -0500 Dear NONMEM users: I have a dataset for 49 individuals and want to perform bootstrap sampling of 35 individuals (with replacement) to obtain 300 sample data sets. Is there any way to get NONMEM to automate this process - or do I have to somehow generate the samples and then use a batch file to process each file with NONMEM? If the latter is the case, does anybody know of any simple program which will read a file of random numbers (I have generated 300 sets of 35 IDs out of the 49 individuals, using Excel 'sample' routine) 35 at a time and then use these to extract records for individuals with matching IDs into a sample data file----and then repeat the procedure 300 times? - John Parke