st: mahapick; package to pick matched control cases

[David Kantor <kantor.d@att.net>]

Hi all,

Thanks to Kit Baum, my package mahapick is now available in the SSC archives.

This allows you to select matching control cases for a set of 
"treated" cases -- for subsequent analysis.  Matching is done with 
replacement, using a Mahalanobis distance measure.  There are also 
programs to compute the distance measure and manage the resulting 
dataset.  There is also a program to place a set of variances into a 
matrix (an operation that was useful within these programs, but may 
interest others as  well).

Some of you out there have received earlier partly-completed versions 
of this over the past few years.  Now you may download this 
"completed" version. (Depending on how long-ago you got it, the 
programs may or may not be different, but the help files are very 
much improved, if a bit lengthy.)  And to any of you who may have 
corresponded with me privately, note my new email address: kantor.d@att.net .

I hope this of help to some of you.
--David

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