Occasionaly, the polr returns a zeta element of length equal to 2 rather than 3 (which I guess is what you're expecting). You're bootfn function should always check to see that it's returning an object of the same length every time.

-roger

Olivia Lau wrote:
Hi,

I am trying to use boot() to refit an ordinal logit (polr in MASS) model. (A very basic bootstrap which samples from the data frame without replacement and updates the model.)

I need to extract two statistics per run (the coefficients and zeta) and I tried concatenating them into a single vector after fitting, but I get the following error:

Error in "[<-"(*tmp*, r, , value = statistic(data, i[r, ], ...)) : number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length

This error goes away if I just return the coefficients, but I need zeta in order to calculate predicted probabilities for each outcome category (1:4 in this case). Alternatively, if boot() could return a vector of predicted probabilities for each categorical outcome, that would work as well, but I don't have a clue as to how to start programming this.

Thanks, Olivia Lau

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Here's some sample data and code:

cost <- c(4, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 3, 3, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2)

mil <- c(1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)

coop <- c(4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 1, 4, 3, 1, 3, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 3, 2, 3, 2, 3, 1, 1, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 1, 4, 1, 3)

sanction <- data.frame(cost=cost, mil=mil, coop=coop)

est <- polr(as.factor(cost) ~ mil + coop, data = sanction)

bootfn <- function(data, i, object) { d <- data[i,]
fit <- update(object, data = d)
c(fit$coef, fit$zeta)
}


res <- boot(sanction, bootfn, R = 10, object = est)

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