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Stata
Technical
Bulletin


July 1992

STB-8


A publication to promote communication among Stata users

Editor

Joseph Hilbe

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J. Theodore Anagnoson, Cal. State Univ., LA
Richard DeLeon, San Francisco State Univ.
Paul Geiger, USC School of Medicine

Lawrence C. Hamilton, Univ. of New Hampshire
Stewart West, Baylor College of Medicine

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Contents of this issue

page

an1.1. STB categories and insert codes (Reprint)

2

an20. Stata U.K. distributor

2

an21. Stata for the Apple Macintosh

2

an22. Stata for the IBM RS/6000 workstation

3

crc13. Short describes, finding variables, and codebooks

3

crc14. Pairwise correlation coefficients

5

crc15. Parse bug

7

crc16. Encapsulated PostScript driver

7

os5. Running Stata under OS/2 2.0

7

os6. Importing and exporting text files with Stata

8

sed7.1. Resistant nonlinear smoothing using Stata

9

sg1.3. Nonlinear regression command, bug fix

12

sg7. Centile estimation command

12

sg8. Probability weighting

15

smv5.1. Loglinear analysis of cross classifications, update

18

sqv4. Calculation of the deviance goodness-of-fit statistic after logistic

18

ssi3. Continuous dynamic system modeling and simulation with Stata

19



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