st: New package on SSC for generating exponential lists

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Hello all

Kit Baum has very kindly placed on SSC a new package -explist- for 
generating exponential number lists.

-explist- is a program to generate an exponentially-spaced list of numbers. 
The syntax of -explist- is modelled on that of Nick Cox's very useful 
-listutil- package (also available on SSC), which seems to offer all kinds 
of lists except exponentially-spaced ones. The list generated by -explist- 
can be stored in a macro variable, and is especially useful as an -xlabel- 
or -ylabel- list by the -graph- command when the -xlog- or -ylog- option is 
used. -explist- takes, as input, a list of numbers x_1, ... , x_n, and 
creates, as output, a list of numbers y_1, ... , y_n, derived exponentially 
from the input list, so that, for each i,

y_i = scale*base^x_i

where base and scale are numbers given by options of the same names 
(defaulting to scale=1 and base=10).

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
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