Stata
Technical
Bulletin
July 1994
STB-20
A publication to promote communication among Stata users
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Stewart West, Baylor College of Medicine
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Contents of this issue |
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an44.1. StataQuest disk enclosed (really) |
2 |
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an46. Stata and Stage now available for IBM PowerPC |
2 |
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crc36. Clarification on analytic weights with linear regression |
2 |
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dm19. Merging raw data and dictionary files |
3 |
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dm20. Date functions |
6 |
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ip6. Storing variables in vectors and matrices |
8 |
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ip6.1. Data and matrices |
10 |
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os14. A program to format raw data files |
10 |
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sg25. Interaction expansion |
12 |
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ssi6. Routines to speed Monte Carlo experiments |
18 |
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ssi6.1. Simplified Monte Carlo simulations |
22 |
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sts7.3. A library of time series programs for Stata (Update) |
25 |
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sts8. Hansen’s test for parameter instability |
26 |
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zz3.4. Computerized index for the STB (Update) |
32 |