Thanks for your help Nick,
As 'collin' is not part of 'official Stata', to what degree can I be 
confident of its statistical validity?
Roger
On 11 Nov 04, at 11:17, Nick Cox wrote:
. findit collin 
shows that -collin- is a program by Phil Ender 
on the UCLA website. As this is not part of official 
Stata, and has never been written up in the STB or SJ, 
I doubt that it was ever under the aegis of -search-. 
. search tabrate, historical 
explains that puzzle. 
Nick 
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roger webb
 
> I have advised a colleague to download a couple of useful STB .ado 
> files ('collin' and 'tabrate') that I have previously successfully 
> dowloaded. I originally identified the STB files by typing 'search 
> collin' and 'search tabrate', but these commands no longer identify 
> the downloadable files. Is there a reason for this and is there an 
> alternative means of locating and downloading these files?
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