st: New package -gsgroup- on SSC

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

Thanks again to Kit Baum, a new package -gsgroup- is now available for 
download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do this.

The -gsgroup- package is described as below on my website, and creates a 
grouping variable corresponding to a -gsort- key, leaving the data in 
their original order. Optionally, it also creates an output dataset (or 
resultsset) with 1 observation per value of the group variable, and data 
on the corresponding -gsort- key values. This can be useful when we 
create a concatenated resultsset whose observations contain values of 
the generated group variable, and we want it also to contain the 
corresponding -gsort- key variables. The online help for -gsgroup- 
contains an example using -gsgroup- with -margins- and the SSC package 
-parmest-.

Best wishes

Roger


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package gsgroup from http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/stata10
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TITLE
      gsgroup: Create a group variable and optionally an output dataset 
for a gsort key

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      gsgroup inputs a gsort key (a list of elements of the form used
      by gsort), and generates as output a new variable, indicating
      the sequential order of the group to which each observation
      belongs, and (optionally) an output dataset (or resultsset),
      with 1 observation per group, and data on the values of the
      generated variable, and the variables of the gsort key
      corresponding to that group.  Unlike gsort, gsgroup does not
      change the sort order of the dataset in memory.  The output
      dataset can be merged into other datasets, using the official
      Stata command merge or the SSC package addinby.  gsgroup is
      typically used together with the SSC packages parmest and
      xcontract.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 27september2012
      Stata-Version: 10

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      gsgroup.ado
      gsgroup.sthlp
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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute
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