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Stata
Technical
Bulletin


September 1996

STB-33


A publication to promote communication among Stata users

Editor

H. Joseph Newton
Department of Statistics
Texas A & M University
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Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania

Joanne M. Garrett, University of North Carolina
Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health
James L. Powell, UC Berkeley and Princeton University
J. Patrick Royston, Royal Postgraduate Medical School

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Contents of this issue

page

an62. Stata 5.0

2

an63. Updates available on the Stata web site

2

sed10.1. Update to pattern

2

sg42.1. Extensions to the regpred command

3

sg49.1. An improved command for paired t tests: Correction

6

sg57. An immediate command for two-way tables

7

sg58. Mountain plots

9

sg59. Index of ordinal variation and Neyman-Barton GOF

10

sg60. Enhancements for the display of estimation results

12

sg61. Bivariate probit models

15

sg62. Hildreth-Houck random coefficients model

21

snp12. Stratified test for trend across ordered groups

24



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