On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Maarten buis <[email protected]> wrote:
> --- On Mon, 25/1/10, Rasika Raghavan wrote:
>> Is it possible for a Stata user to run a do-file without it
>> being possible for the mentioned user to see the contents
>> of the do file?
> <snip>
>> I searched Statalist for any help in this regard. What I
>> was able to find involved using Mata or encrypting the
>> do-file. The program is lengthy, so I wanted to know whether
>> there is a more conveinient way.
>
> No, Stata seems to be mainly aimed at the academic market,
> and within this area we explicitly want a .do file to show
> what we do. The strength of the argument we make depends on
> how we link what we have seen (the raw data) to our
If Rasika is, on the other hand, in the commercial sector and wants
to protect the algorithm that is behind the results being exposed to
the clients, she will find good news in a hint on page 18 of Jeff
Pitblado's presentation:
http://www.stata.com/meeting/canada09/ca09_rtu_pitblado.pdf
and follow up on it with Stata developers directly.
Best regards,
Sergiy Radyakin
> conclusion. If we hide part of our data manipulation, our
> argument would loose all its strength. There are commercial
> sitation where you do want to hide what you are doing, and
> for those you can use the tricks shown in this post <http://
> www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2007-05/msg00556.html>, which
> I assume you have already found.
>
> -- Maarten
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