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Title
Stata Technical Bulletin
Description
The Stata Technical Bulletin (STB) was the predecessor of the Stata
Journal (SJ); see [R] sj. The STB is described here.
The STB was a publication for and by Stata users; it provided a forum for
users of all disciplines and levels of sophistication. STB reprints are
available in both printed and electronic form. The STB reprints contain
articles written by StataCorp, Stata users, and others. Articles have
included enhancements to Stata (ado-files), tutorials on programming
strategies, illustrations of data analysis techniques, discussions on
teaching statistics, debates on appropriate statistical techniques,
reports on other programs, along with interesting datasets,
announcements, questions, and suggestions.
If you want reprints of the STB you must order them from StataCorp
(information on how is found below). However, the software is available
for free from our web site http://www.stata.com.
The bimonthly STB began publication in May 1991 and continued for ten
years (through May 2001). The STB was the first publication of its kind
for statistical software users. The Stata Journal, which began
publication fourth quarter 2001, expands upon this foundation.
As an example of what is available in the STB, the table of contents for
the March 2000 issue of the STB was
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Multiple curves plotted with stcurve command . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Search web for installable packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Contrasts for categorical variables: update . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
ICD-9 diagnostic and procedure codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Removing duplicate observations in a dataset . . . . . . . . . . . 16
An update to drawing Venn diagrams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Overlaying graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Metadata for user-written contributions: extensions . . . . . . . . 21
Automated outbreak detection from public health surveillance data . 23
Concordance correlation coefficient: update for Stata 6 . . . . . . 25
Update to hotdeck imputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Correction to roccomp command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Box--Cox regression models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
On the manipulability of Wald tests in Box--Cox regression models . 36
Analysis of variance from summary statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Sequential and drop one term likelihood-ratio tests . . . . . . . . 46
Model selection using the Akaike information criterion . . . . . . 47
Random allocation of treatments balanced in blocks: update . . . . 49
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To see the table of contents for any STB you can follow the steps
outlined below.
Obtaining user-written additions from the STB
The STB user-written additions are easily obtained. You can click here
Or 1) Select Help > SJ and User-written Programs
2) Click on STB
Or use the command line and type
. net from http://www.stata.com/stb
See net. What to do next will be obvious.
STB Reprints
The ten years of Stata Technical Bulletins have been reprinted in a
series of ten books -- Stata Technical Bulletin Reprints. Each Reprint
contains a year of the STB.
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| Reprint | | |
| Volume | Editor | Includes STB Issues |
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| 1 (1992) | J. Hilbe | 1 (May 1991) -- 6 (March 1992) |
| 2 (1993) | J. Hilbe | 7 (May 1992) -- 12 (March 1993) |
| 3 (1994) | S. Becketti | 13 (May 1993) -- 18 (March 1994) |
| 4 (1995) | S. Becketti | 19 (May 1994) -- 24 (March 1995) |
| 5 (1996) | S. Becketti | 25 (May 1995) -- 30 (March 1996) |
| 6 (1997) | H.J. Newton | 31 (May 1996) -- 36 (March 1997) |
| 7 (1998) | H.J. Newton | 32 (May 1997) -- 42 (March 1998) |
| 8 (1999) | H.J. Newton | 43 (May 1998) -- 48 (March 1999) |
| 9 (2000) | H.J. Newton | 49 (May 1999) -- 54 (March 2000) |
| 10 (2001) | H.J. Newton | 55 (May 2000) -- 61 (May 2001) |
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The table of contents for each of the STB Reprint Volumes is posted on
our web site: http://www.stata.com/bookstore/stbj.html.
Obtaining STB reprints
STB Reprints are available from StataCorp.
StataCorp
4905 Lakeway Drive
College Station, Texas 77845
http://www.stata.com
http://www.stata.com/bookstore/stbr.html
stata@stata.com
800-782-8272 (800-STATAPC, USA)
800-248-8272 (Canada)
979-696-4600 (Worldwide)
979-696-4601 (Fax)
Also see
Manual: [U] 3.2 The Stata web site (www.stata.com),
[U] 3.3 The Stata Press web site (www.stata-press.com),
[U] 3.4 The Stata listserver,
[U] 3.5 The Stata Journal,
[U] 17.6 How do I install an addition?,
[U] 17.8 How do I install official updates?,
[U] 28 Using the Internet to keep up to date,
[R] sj
Help: [R] net, [R] search, [R] sj, [R] update, whatsnew
