st: New package -polyspline- on SSC

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

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

The -polyspline- packge is described as below on my website, and is an 
easy-to-use front-end for the existing SSC package -bspline-. It inputs 
an X-variable and a list of reference points on the X-axis, and 
generates a list of reference splines, one per reference point. These 
reference splines can be included in the list of covariates for a 
regresssion model, and the corresponding parameters will then be values 
of the spline model at the reference points, or differences between 
those reference values. In default, the degree of the spline model is 
one less than the number of reference points, implying that the spline 
is simply a polynomial, with no internal knots. If the user specifies 
lower degree spline using the -power()- option, then the internal knots 
will automatically be interpolate between the reference points, in such 
a way as to guarantee that the reference splines will exist.

Best wishes

Roger

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Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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TITLE
      polyspline: Generate sensible bases for polynomials and other splines

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The polyspline package inputs an X-variable and a list of
      reference points on the X-axis, and generates a basis of
      reference splines (one per reference point) for a polynomial
      or other unrestricted spline.  This basis can be included in
      the list of covariates of a regression model.  The estimated
      parameters will then be values of the spline at the reference
      points, or differences between values of the spline at the
      reference points and the value of the spline at a base
      reference point.  polyspline is an easy-to-use front end for
      the SSC package bspline, which must be installed for
      polyspline to work.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-date: 25 December 2013
      Stata-version: 10


INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      polyspline.ado
      polyspline.sthlp
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