st: New version of -bspline- on SSC

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

Thanks once again to Kit baum, a new version of the -bspline- package is 
now available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to 
do this, or -adoupdate- if you already have an old version of -bspline-.

The -bspline- package is described as below on my website. The new 
version has a new option -labprefix()-, allowing the user to specify the 
prefix used in the variable labels of the generated splines in the 
basis. The default is -labprefix("Spline at ")- for the -flexcurv- and 
-frencurv- modules, and -labprefix("B-spline on ")- for the -bspline- 
module. Therefore, the splines in the basis have defualt variable labels 
of the form "Spline at 1760" , but these can be respecified to the form 
"weight==1760". The second form is similar to the variable labels for 
the indicator variables produced by -xi-. Reference splines are a 
generalization of the concept of a set indicator variable to continuous 
variables (rather than categorical factors), and can be combined (using 
products) to produce generalized versions of the design matrix variables 
corresponding to intercepts, differences and interactions. The methods 
and formulas are explained in a .pdf manual, distribured with -bspline- 
as an ancillary file.

Best wishes

Roger


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TITLE
      bspline: Create a basis of B-splines or reference splines

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The bspline package contains 3 commands, bspline, frencurv
      and flexcurv.  bspline generates a basis of B-splines in the
      X-variate based on a list of knots, for use in the design
      matrix of a regression model.  frencurv generates a basis of
      reference splines, for use in the design matrix of a
      regression model, with the property that the parameters
      fitted will be values of the spline at a list of reference
      points.  flexcurv is an easy-to-use version of frencurv, and
      generates reference splines with equally-spaced knots.
      frencurv and flexcurv have the additional option of
      generating an incomplete basis of reference splines, which
      can be completed by the addition of the standard constant
      variable used in regression models.  The splines are either
      given the names in the newvarlist (if present), or (more
      usually) generated as a list of numbered variables, prefixed
      by the generate() option.  Usually (but not always), the
      regression command is called using the noconst option.
      Full documentation of the program (including Methods and
      Formulas) can be found in the ancillary file bspline.pdf,
      which can be viewed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-date: 18 January 2011
      Stata-version: 10


INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      bspline.ado
      bspline.sthlp
      frencurv.ado
      frencurv.sthlp
      flexcurv.ado
      flexcurv.sthlp

ANCILLARY FILES                                     (click here to get)
      bspline.pdf
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