As an email from Joseph Coveney signalled, Stata Journal 6(1) 2006
has been emailed to subscribers. 
Here is the table of contents for this issue. We believe that the 
mix of research and expository material contains much of interest
to all serious Stata users: 
Estimating variance components in Stata          Y. Marchenko 
Automatic generation of documents                R. Gini and J. Pasquini 
Generalized least squares for trend estimation   N. Orsini, R. Bellocco, and S. Greenland 
of summarized dose-response data 
Generalized ordered logit/partial proportional   R. Williams 
odds models for ordinal dependent variables 
Explained variation for survival models          P. Royston 
Goodness-of-fit test for a logistic regression   K.J. Archer and S. Lemeshow 
model fitted using survey sample data 
Decomposing inequality and obtaining marginal    A. L�pez-Feldman 
effects 
Mata Matters: Creating new variables-            W. Gould 
sounds boring, isn't 
Speaking Stata: Time of day                      N.J. Cox 
Review of Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling   R. Wolfe 
Using Stata by Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal 
  
Stata tip 28: Precise control of dataset sort    P. Schumm 
order 
Stata tip 29: For all times and all places       C.H. Franklin 
Stata tip 30: May the source be with you         N.J. Cox 
  
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