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| From | Stas Kolenikov <skolenik@gmail.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Making vce(robust) the default |
| Date | Sat, 6 Aug 2011 03:20:48 -0500 |
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Richard Williams <richardwilliams.ndu@gmail.com> wrote: >> That's a freaking dirty programming trick... or undocumented (and >> barely supported) implementation detail, depending on how you view >> this. It may be usable at the moment, but it may die off with the next >> release, or something. I mean, it's better than nothing, but you would >> want to program it very defensively, just for the case that something >> gets broken down: (1) your global is set by somebody else; (2) -svy- >> decides to call another program; (3) some other unpredictable >> circumstances that may cause wrong behavior of your program. > My approach is undocumented (in the manuals) but documented online. In Stata > 12, type > > help svy_parsing Fair enough. Or, actually, not bad at all. At the very least you can now point fingers at whoever wrote that help file :). -- Stas Kolenikov, also found at http://stas.kolenikov.name Small print: I use this email account for mailing lists only. * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/