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Stata
Technical
Bulletin


March 1999

STB-48


A publication to promote communication among Stata users

Editor


H. Joseph Newton
Department of Statistics
Texas A & M University
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Nicholas J. Cox, University of Durham

Francis X. Diebold, University of Pennsylvania

Joanne M. Garrett, University of North Carolina
Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health

J. Patrick Royston, Imperial College School of Medicine

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Contents of this issue

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Drawing Venn diagrams

2

gr35.

Diagnostic plots for assessing Singh-Maddala and Dagum distributions fitted by MLE

2

sg104.

Analysis of income distributions

4

sg105.

Creation of bivariate random lognormal variables

18

sg106.

Fitting Singh-Maddala and Dagum distributions by maximum likelihood

19

sg107.

Generalized Lorenz curves and related graphs

25

sg108.

Computing poverty indices

29

sg109.

Utility to convert binomial frequency records to frequency weighted data

33

sg110.

Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium test and allele frequency estimation

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