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RE: st: OT: your favorite math equations editor


From   "Nick Cox" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   RE: st: OT: your favorite math equations editor
Date   Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:34:07 +0100

Yes, but it is not I think wired into any program. 

For example, you could split your data randomly 

gen fit = uniform() > 0.5 

and then fit the model to one subset 

nl ... if fit 

and then look at predictions for the other: 

... if !fit 

Nick 
[email protected] 

Simon Moore
 
> I am hoping to use non-linear least squares (nl) in Stata v8.0. The
> analyses are relatively straight forward (nl exp2 var1 var2). However
> it would be nice if I could perform some form of split half analysis
> (i.e. fit the model to one half of the dataset and then see how it
> predicts on the other half). Is there a means of achieving this in
> Stata?

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