Typing 
. findit median polish 
points to one implementation in the public domain, 
itself based on a StataCorp program dating from 1990, 
but never adopted as part of official Stata. 
"mean polish" is surely (a special case of) two-way anova. 
Nick 
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alola lolo
> In an epidemiology textbook I read about the median polish 
> technique and the 
> mean polish technique used to evaluate the cell reisduals in a 
> crosstabulation with the objective of detecting the cohort 
> effect.. Can 
> these techniques be done by STATA
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