v 3 d Bill's Stata Extensions d Bill Rising d StataCorp LP d email: brising@stata.com d d ckvar {p 10 13 2}Allows validation rules to easily be defined and attached directly to variables. This has {net "describe ckvar, from(http://fmwww.bc.edu/RePEc/bocode/c)":moved to the ssc}.{p_end} p xmlappend {p 10 13 2}Appends new sheets to an MS Excel xml table{p_end} p classi {p 10 13 2}Makes an immediate classification table{p_end} p label_reverse {p 10 13 2}Reverses value labels for poorly ordered ordinal variables.{p_end} p reshape8 {p 10 13 2}An improved reshape which really does preserve variable labels ... quite well{p_end} p reshape7 {p 10 13 2}A now-outdated improved reshape which preserves (most) variable labels when going from long to wide to long{p_end} p vtokenize {p 10 13 2}Splits a variable into its tokens ({help tokenize} for variables). For miserable datasets.{p_end} p log2do {p 10 13 2}Converts log files to do files{p_end} p slog {p 10 13 2}A replacement for {help log} which allows nested and linked log files{p_end} p spearwt {p 10 13 2}A slight modification for (an experimental) use of weights in Spearman's correlation{p_end} p sphdist {p 10 13 2}A package for computing distances on a sphere (in particular, on the Earth){p_end} p icd9x {p 10 13 2}A program for marking observations on ICD-9 inclusion/exclusion criteria{p_end} p sampstat {p 10 13 2}The sampstat.ado file needed for Biostat 621 at Hopkins{p_end} * p utils A collection of utilities for Stata p workdays {p 10 13 2}An ado file which computes workday differences{p_end}