Dear all,
in my opinion a brief description in the manual of how series, bundles
and restrictions work might be helpful.
As example:
<hansl>
nulldata 10
s = index % 2 ? NA : 1
bundle b = null
smpl 1 5
b.s1 = s
smpl full
smpl --no-missing
b.s2 = s
smpl full
print b
</hansl>
<output>
bundle b:
s1 (series: length 10)
s2 (series: length 5)
</output>
I suppose that the series "s1" has 10 element for "preserving
information", because in "smpl 1 5" you could use only a part of
"s",
but you cannot do that with "--no-missing" because the series after
sampling is completely different.
Anyway, it isn't obvious at first sight why series s1 and s2 have
different length.
What do you think?
Regards
Federico Fiorani