Re: st: tabulation of comparison outcomes in -somersd-

[Roger Newson <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

It wasn't a Stata program, as they didn't have Stata in the early-mid 
1980s, at least at Sussex University (where I did the reading for my 
DPhil at weekends) and at LSHTM (where I worked during the week and ran 
the programs at odd moments). It was a Pascal program, used to input an 
output file written by SAS and output an input file read by SAS. And it 
was originally written on punched cards, which LSHTM didn't finally 
phase out until 1986.

Best wishes

Roger


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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On 21/10/2010 20:29, Nick Cox wrote:
> <sacrifice>
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> Roger: Thanks for changing that name. However, you lost out on any future competition for the most bizarre-looking Stata program name in history. It sounds like a long drink going down a very thirsty throat.
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> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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> Roger Newson
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> [...]
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> As it happens, the original ancestor of -somersd- was called -lllgglgg-,
> and calculated output variables ll, lg, gl and gg, containing,
> respectively, in each observation, the number of other observations with
> a lesster X-value and a lesser Y-value, the number of observations with
> a lesser X-value and a greater Y-value, the number of observations with
> a greater X-value and a lesser Y-value, and the number of observations
> with a greater X-value and a greater Y-value.
>
> [...]
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