st: Utility for clarify

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

Frustrated a little by the difficulty of running -clarify- with multiple 
variables and many multiples of setx, particularly involving Stata's xi 
prefix, I have written a wrapper for the clarify series that automates this 
process.

The program and help files are available from Stata (thanks to Kit Baum) by 
typing -ssc install qsim-


Title: QSIM

qsim provides a wrapper for the clarify series of program that automates 
simulation , particularly with dummy variables produced by Stata's xi prefix.

Without qsim each of the 3 clarify programs has to be run separately for 
each level of the xi: categorical variable. qsim can be placed into one or 
more foreach loops and a large series of
simulations can be run at one time.

The output can be pasted into a text editor. Marking E(  or Pr( identifies 
the line with the simulation data output. This line then can be cut to 
Excel (or similar programs) to make an output table. The whole process 
takes less than a minute.

Fred Wolfe





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