Re: st: BTSCS ad-on for xtprobit?

["Frederick J. Boehmke" <boehmke@umich.edu>]

As someone who has btscs installed, I'm not even sure it will do what you 
want. Here is the description from the help file:

***

btscs allows the user to easily compute the length of non-eventful
binary spells (i.e., the length of the sequence of zeros that precede the
current observation).  For first events, the variable generated will
equal 0.

btscs can also produce the set of natural cubic spline and/or temporal
dummy variables associated with non-eventful binary spells -- variables
that can be used to account for duration dependence in a regression
(Beck, Katz, and Tucker 1998).

btscs provides users with the option to generate several additional
variables useful for BTSCS logit analysis (i.e., first failure marker,
number of previous failures counter, and a time until failure counter).

***

Many of these variables are now easibly computable within stata (i.e., 
with stset), so perhaps you won't need it after all.

Incidentally, as someone who has written a couple of ado programs, I 
looked at ssc to try to figure out how to upload them, but to no avail. Is 
there a submission guideline for programs that I missed?

Thanks.

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Richard Williams wrote:


> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:26:04 -0500
> From: Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>
> Reply-To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu, statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: st: BTSCS ad-on for xtprobit?
>
> At 12:34 PM 2/1/2007, Jason Yackee wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > a statistician friend of mine was describing certain well-known problems
> > with the -xtprobit- and -xtlogit- routines when panels are long.
> > Stata's -xt- manual discusses this as well, having to do with the
> > quadrature method used to implement the random-effects estimator.  My
> > friend provided a "fix" using lowess techniques, and also mentioned a
> > different user-written ad-on with the file name "btscs" that he said was
> > difficult to find.   Indeed, -findit- finds no trace.  Does anyone have
> > access to the btscs program?
> This question has come up before:
>
> http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-08/msg00166.html
>
> I suggest you email the person who claims he got a copy of it.
>
> As a sidelight, I wish people would either put their stuff on SSC, or else 
> register their sites so -findit- could locate their routines.
>
>
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