Stata 7 manual errata
Errata are available for the following manuals:
Reference A–G
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[R] arima, p. 121, equation (1c)
The subscript should be changed from t to t-1 on the
y that appears on the right hand side of the two equations.
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[R] arima, p. 122, Remarks, second sentence
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The estimated variance of the white-noise disturbance epsilon is .73.
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The estimated standard deviation of the white-noise disturbance epsilon is .725.
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[R] binreg, p. 133, Options for predict, nooffset option
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... for glm. ... |
... for binreg. ... |
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[R] biprobit, p. 139, Syntax, Seemingly unrelated bivariate probit
model syntax diagram
The varlist is not allowed with seemingly unrelated bivariate probit.
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... equation2 [varlist] [weight] ... |
... equation2 [weight] ... |
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[R] bstrap, p. 164, Syntax, bstat command syntax
bstat syntax diagram is missing the title() option.
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... level(#) ] |
... level(#)
title(text) ] |
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[R] bstrap, p. 165, Options
Add the following paragraph describing the title() option of the
bstat command.
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title(text) (bstat only) specifies a title to
be displayed above the table of bootstrap results; the default title is
"Bootstrap statistics". |
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[R] canon, p. 177, Syntax
varlist1 and varlist2 should be enclosed in parens.
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canon varlist1 varlist2 ... |
canon (varlist1) (varlist2)
... |
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[R] cloglog, p. 216, Syntax
The offset() option takes an existing varname instead of a
newvarname.
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... offset(newvarname) ... |
... offset(varname) ... |
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[R] cluster, p. 233
[R] cluster averagelinkage, p. 236, Options, distance_option
[R] cluster completelinkage, p. 241, Options, distance_option
[R] cluster kmeans, p. 257, Options, distance_option
[R] cluster kmedians, p. 266, Options, distance_option
[R] cluster singlelinkage, p. 276, Options, distance_option
The minimum abbreviation was not indicated for the Anderberg and
Kulczynski similarity measures.
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Anderberg |
Anderberg |
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Kulczynski |
Kulczynski |
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[R] egen, p. 413, Description, ends() function
The minimum abbreviation for the trim option is tr instead of
t.
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[R] estimation commands, p. 499, table
The table entry for the glm row and lrtest column should be
changed from "no" to "yes".
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[R] functions, p. 556, invF() description
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... invf( ... |
... invF( ... |
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[R] glm, p. 567, Syntax, list of linknames
A space is needed between the name and number for the opower and
power links.
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... | opower# | power# | ...
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... | opower # | power # | ...
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Reference H–P
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[R] icd9, p. 66, fourth line from bottom
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Note that diag2 has an ... |
Note that proc2 has an ... |
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[R] impute, pp. 70–71
Several variable names in the six impute commands are incorrect.
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ln_rtl |
ln_rsales_pc |
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medage |
median_age |
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i_ln_rtl |
i_ln_rsales |
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i_medage |
i_median_age |
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[R] insheet, p. 120, Remarks, first paragraph
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... if you type infix using myfile.
... type infix using myfile.txt. |
... if you type insheet using myfile.
... type insheet using myfile.txt. |
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[R] limits, p. 195, entry for infix, Record length without
data dictionary
The limit is 7,998 for both Small and Intercooled Stata. The footnote
for the maximum record length of 19,998 for Unix also applies to this
line of the table.
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[R] list, p. 209, Syntax, second sentence under syntax diagram
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The second varlist may ... |
varlist may ... |
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[R] logistic, p. 243, Saved Results, lstat
The descriptions for r(P_1n) and r(P_0n) were reversed.
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r(P_1n) negative predictive value |
r(P_0n) negative predictive value |
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r(P_0n) false negative rate given classified negative |
r(P_1n) false negative rate given classified negative |
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[R] nl, p. 418, Options, iterate() option
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... defaults to 98. |
... defaults to 10,000. |
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Reference Q–St
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[R] #review, p. 130, Remarks and Also See
Section number and title incorrect on reference.
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[U] 13.6 Editing previous lines |
[U] 13.5 Editing previous lines in Stata for all operating systems
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[R] save, p. 176, Options, old option
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... If your dataset contains variable names longer than 8 characters
or value labels longer than 8 characters, Stata will refuse to save.
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... If your dataset contains variable names longer than 8 characters,
value labels longer than 8 characters, or characteristic names longer
than 8 characters, Stata will refuse to save. |
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[R] signrank, p. 213, Syntax, median command syntax
The median command allows frequency weights. [weight] is
added to the syntax diagram
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median varname [if exp] ... |
median varname [weight] [if exp] ...
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and the following note is added under the syntax diagrams.
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fweights are allowed with median; see [U] 14.1.6 weight.
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[R] st streg, p. 343, Syntax for predict,
median lntime entry
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predicted mean ln(survival time) |
predicted median ln(survival time) |
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[R] st streg, p. 346, Options for stcurve
The at1(), ... at10() option description left off the number
1.
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at(varname=#...),
at2(varname=#...), ... |
at1(varname=#...),
at2(varname=#...), ... |
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[R] st streg, p. 353, second paragraph under Generalized gamma
model
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... by parameterizing lambda_j = x_j beta and ... |
... by parameterizing mu = x_j beta and ... |
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[R] st sts, p. 389, third display equation
The denominator of the denominator should be changed from d_j to
n_j.
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[R] st sts generate, p. 391, Functions
The dchaz function is incorrectly named in the section describing
the functions. It should be h.
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dchaz produces the ... |
h produces the ... |
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[R] st stset, p. 434, fourth line from bottom
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... = 18aug1998 - 31aug1998 = -13 |
... = 23aug1998 - 31aug1998 = -8 |
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Reference Su–Z
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[R] translate, p. 198, Options for print, like() option
The word define was omitted in the command example following "On
the other hand, you could type".
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. transmap .me .txt |
. transmap define .me .txt |
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[R] translate, p. 191, Options for translate, translator() option
The word define was omitted with the transmap command in
the second table on the page.
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. transmap .odd .txt |
. transmap define .odd .txt |
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[R] xtabond, p. 300, last sentence
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... in the year 1984. |
... in the year 1980. |
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[R] xtivreg, p. 363, Options for predict, xbu option description
The greek letter nu should be replaced with the greek letter mu.
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User's Guide
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[U] 14.1.1 varlist, p. 66, Example
[U] 14.1.7 options, pp. 72–73, Example
The meanonly option of summarize was not listed in
the example syntax diagrams.
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[U] 14.1.2 by varlist:, p. 68, Technical Note
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... 32.417, and 15.213. |
... 32.417, and 152.13. |
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[U] 17.8.2 Matrix functions returning scalars, p. 155,
colnumb() description
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... associated with row name s; ... |
... associated with column name s; ... |
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[U] 21.11.1 Version, p. 219
[U] 21.11.3 Debugging ado-files, p. 220
The top and bottom divider lines for the hello.ado program incorrectly
say hello.do.
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top of hello.do |
top of hello.ado |
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bottom of hello.do |
bottom of hello.ado |
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[U] 23.1 All estimation commands work the same way, p. 238, item 9
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... nltest ... |
... testnl ... |
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[U] 29.6 Conditional logistic regression, p. 312
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... the observation's characteristics ... |
... the observation's covariates ... |
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Getting Started Unix manual
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[GSU], p. 53, Fonts and the Data Editor, First paragraph
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... From Stata(GUI), select Preferences from the Edit menu.
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... From Stata(GUI), select General Preferences... from the
Prefs menu. ... |
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[GSU], p. 125, Graphing data, second line of Note at bottom
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... window. Click on the Results button to put ... |
... window. Select Main from the Windows menu to put ...
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[GSU], p. 186, Finding a color scheme, after the line “You would
type”
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. conren color 1 |
. conren style 1 |
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... conren color and ... |
... conren style and ... |
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[GSU], p. 187, If you had success...
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. conren color 4 |
. conren style 4 |
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quietly conren color 4 |
quietly conren style 4 |
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Graphics manual
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[G] graph options, p. 16, Specifying colors (pens)
The minimum abbreviation for the pen() option is pe()
instead of p().
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Programming manual
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[P] file formats .dta, p. 91, table showing expansion fields
The second, fifth, and eighth lines in the body of the table show the
length of an int as 2. It should be 4.
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[P] file formats .dta, p. 91, third paragraph from bottom
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... When writing, write 3 bytes of zeros ... When reading, read three
bytes; the second two bytes now tell you ... until you read 3 bytes of
zeros. |
... When writing, write 5 bytes of zeros ... When reading, read five
bytes; the last four bytes now tell you ... until you read 5 bytes of
zeros. |
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[P] macro, p. 123, Syntax
The set dp extended macro function was omitted.
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set { adosize | graphics | ... |
set { adosize | dp | graphics | ... |
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[P] macro, p. 128, Macro extended functions for extracting data
attributes
Add the following description of the maxlength modifier to the
label extended macro function description.
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maxlength specifies that, rather than looking up a number in a
value label, label is to return the maximum length of the
labelings. |
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[P] macro, p. 128, Macro extended functions for accessing Stata
system parameters
Add the following entry describing the set dp extended macro
function.
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set dp returns "period" or "comma", depending on whether periods
or commas are the decimal symbol; see [R] format. |
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[P] matrix score, p. 188, Syntax and Options
The option eq() should be equation() with minimum abbreviation
eq().
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[P] smcl, p. 273, Formatting commands for use in line mode,
{col #} entry
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{col #} follows syntax 2. |
{col #} follows syntax 3. |
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[P] smcl, p. 278, Advice on using display, 12th line from top of page
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... display's in error directive both ... |
... display's as error directive both ... |
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[P] syntax, p. 296, option_descriptor optionally_on section
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... but option constant in local macro `constan'. |
... but option constant in local macro `constant'. |
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[P] syntax, p. 296, option_descriptor optionally_off section
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... and option noconstant in local macro `constan'.
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... and option noconstant in local macro `constant'.
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