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RE: st: clinical trials
At 03:19 PM 1/4/2008, Verkuilen, Jay wrote:
Stata's facility at extension by users is a great asset and your
program is very nice. However, it's tough for my students---who are
using a network install and who therefore lack permissions to
install components from ssc or elsewhere easily---to get at it so I
don't tend to push the add-ons too much.
We have the same problem here. You can try to install stuff, and
either you can't do it or it disappears within 24 hours. Here is the
workaround I suggest for my students. It may or may not be adaptable
for your purposes:
http://www.nd.edu/~rwilliam/statsinfo/ndstata/ndstata.html
The bigger problem at Notre Dame is that you are at the mercy of the
system administrators to install the Stata patches. They don't even
necessarily know that there is such a thing as the -update- command;
and if they do know they aren't going to run it more than once a
semester. I suppose that is understandable when you have hundreds of
machines to maintain, but it isn't optimal from my standpoint. I
encourage my students to buy their own personal copies of Stata.
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