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st: RE: managing updates of stata
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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st: RE: managing updates of stata
Date
Tue, 1 Mar 2011 17:08:32 +0000
Only by keeping a complete copy of all files as of that date in one place, I believe.
That is, in principle StataCorp, with you as willing -update-r can overwrite its own files within a release, so if you need to guarantee absolute repeatability, you must copy everything. In practice, it is rare that this will bite, but I don't think rare means impossible.
I'm happy to be free of such worries. I like the spirit of being able to replicate everything, very much, but not to this extent.
Nick
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Argyn Kuketayev
is there a document, which would describe a recommended approach on
managing updates to Stata?
let's say i'm developing a model using Stata. if i download the
updates, it can change the results, the model coefficients etc. how
would i be able to verify the results later? suppose on Jan 1st 2011 i
updated Stata, regressed the model, got the coefficients, and used to
report financial results for Q4 2010. Now 2 years later, the internal
audit wants to verify how I got the coefficients. How would I be able
to reproduce the state of Stata software as of Jan 2011?
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