STB-22

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Table of contents:

an50: Submission guidelines

Author: Sean Becketti, STB Editor

dm21: Bringing large data sets into memory

Author: Robert M. Farmer, Alabama Quality Assurance Foundation, Inc.

dm22: Sorting in descending order

Author: David Mabb, Health Services Advisory Group, Inc.

dm23: Saving a subset of the current data set

Author: David Mabb, Health Services Advisory Group, Inc.

dt2: Reading public user microdata samples into Stata

Authors: Charles L. Sigmund, M.S., Oregon Employment Department

D.H. Judson, Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno

sg26.1: Fractional polynomials: Correction

Authors: Patrick Royston, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London, UK

Douglas G. Altman, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK

sg27: The overlapping coefficient and an "improved" rank-sum statistic

Author: Richard Goldstein, Qualitas, Inc.

sg28: Multiple comparisons of categories after regression-like methods

Author: William H. Rogers, StataCorp

snp7: Natural cubic splines

Author: Peter Sasieni, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London, UK

ssa6: Utilities for survival analysis with time-varying regressors

Author: Dr. Philippe Bocquier, CERPOD

sss1.1: Updated U.S. marginal income tax rate function

Author: Timothy J. Schmidt, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

sts7.4: A library of time series programs for Stata

Author: Sean Becketti, STB Editor

zz3.6: Computerized index for the STB (Update)

Author: William Gould, StataCorp

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