Thanks to Kit Baum, various packages
have been updated on SSC. Details
follow my signature. If you installed
any of these before, please update by
. ssc inst <package>, replace
To find out whether you have installed
<package>, so long as you installed it
using -ssc- or -net-, go
. ado dir <package>
For example, to see whether you installed
any of the packages
catplot tabstatmat tsspell
you can go
. foreach p in catplot tabstatmat tsspell {
. ado dir `p'
. }
Nick
[email protected]
catplot (Stata 8 required)
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Eva Poen suggested an immediate version of
-catplot-. That is, just as you can use -tabi-
to get results from a two-way table, without
the data being entered into Stata, so also
you could get a -catplot-.
A very rough version was posted
on Statalist as -catploti-. This is a better
version of -catploti-. -catplot- is unaffected.
tabstatmat (Stata 8 required)
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Fix to help file.
tsspell (Stata 7 required)
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Extra material in help file. How to tackle
the following problem is now documented,
with code example. The program is unchanged.
A liberal definition of a spell might allow
inclusion of periods that were no longer than
some specified number of observations, even though
they do not fit the strict definition of that spell.
For example, two spells of heavy rain separated by
a brief period might be regarded, meteorologically,
as part of the same spell. More generally, we might
consider including any part of the data that is not
part of a strictly identified spell, i.e. before the
first spell, between two spells, or after the last
spell. One approach to this is a two-pass process. In the
second pass, periods omitted from spells on the first
pass are themselves treated as another kind of spell.
Then once the length of each gap has been calculated,
the new definition is just the old definition or the
fact that gap lengths are acceptable.
Nick
[email protected]
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