st: Re: estout vs outreg(2)

[Kit Baum <baum@bc.edu>]

First of all the relevant comparison is estout versus outreg2. outreg  
has not been developed for some time, which triggered Roy Wada's  
development of outreg2.

The primary difference is that outreg2 (like outreg) does all the  
heavy lifting itself, whereas estout piggybacks upon the official - 
estimates- suite of Stata commands. Thus additional tools such as  
estadd would not be useful in conjunction with outreg2, since outreg2  
does not make use of stored estimates.

I used to use outreg, and tested outreg2 when it appeared. estout is  
complex, but also is very fully documented by an extensive article in  
the Stata Journal. estout also has a useful "intro" help file which  
shows how it can be used without any complexity, taking the defaults  
for many of the options. I highly recommend that anyone interested in  
output to text, HTML or LaTeX have a look at estout.

Kit Baum, Boston College Economics
http://ideas.repec.org/e/pba1.html


On Jun 8, 2006, at 2:33 AM, statalist-digest wrote:


> But, if your needs are more complicated than that, estout has
> zillions of options.  It also can be used with the companion packages
> estadd and estadd_plus, which allow you to include additional
> statistics. (But perhaps those routines could also be used with  
> outreg2?)
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