Actually, I came upon it by
-search multiple-comparisons-
in Stata 8.2
I'll take a look at _mtest
Thanks.
--Chris
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Nick Cox wrote:
> This command was published in the STB in 1994. The help
> file contains a typo: the closing "]" was omitted by
> accident. The "[ ]" indicate genuinely optional options and
> are not to be typed literally.
>
> This contribution only appears if you type -search, historical-
> but then without comment. That usually means that the contribution
> may be rendered awkward or impossible to use given subsequent
> changes in Stata, so deeper problems may yet lurk. In fact one
> of your error messages below indicates one such.
>
> On looking at the file I see no -version- statement. Inserting
> a line
>
> version 2.1
>
> below the "program define" is one possible remedy, but I've not
> tried it and make no promises.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> Christopher W. Ryan
>
>> I've installed mcompp and mcompr but can't seem to get mcompp to work.
>> What is the proper syntax?
>>
>> Here is an extract from the help file:
>>
>>
>> P-values for multiple comparisons
>> [sg28:
>> STB-22]
>> ----------------------------------
>>
>> mcompp varlist , [ nocons bonferonni(varname)
>>
>> scheffe(varname) sidak(varname)
>>
>> calculates P-values for all possible contrasts defined by the
>> varlist. This
>> list must appear in the most recent estimation command.
>>
>>
>> Here are the errors I get when I try different syntax. It seems odd
>> that the syntax diagram contains just an opening square bracket, no
>> closing one.
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2, [sidak(sidak)
>> option [ not allowed
>> r(198);
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2, sidak(sidak)
>> program error: matching close brace not found
>> r(198);
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2, sidak(sidak)]
>> option ] not allowed
>> r(198);
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2, (sidak(sidak))
>> option ( not allowed
>> r(198);
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2, [sidak(sidak)]
>> option [ not allowed
>> r(198);
>>
>> . mcompp _Ifamily_2
>> program error: matching close brace not found
>> r(198);
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