.e STB-30 @net:stb 30 dm41!dm41@
.c stb
.t Online documentation for _result() contents
.a J. R. Gleason
.o @_result@ if installed
.k prog-ramming prog-rams display sav-ed result-s debug disp_res disp_s disp
.k s_-# _res-ult data-sets set-s manage-ment _res5dcn _res5dds
.k _res5din _res5s1w _res5scr
.k _res5sfa _res5sqr _res5srg _res5srr _res5sta _res5sts _res5sum _res6avr
.k _res6mac _res6mlo _res7max _res_all _res_idx
.z
.x
	3/96	pp.3--5; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.49--52
	the contents of Saved Results is available online;
	Saved Results were changed in Stata 6

.e STB-30 @net:stb 30 ip8.1!ip8.1@
.c stb
.t An even more enhanced for command
.a P. Royston
.o @for3@ if installed
.k util-ity repeat command-s var-iables edit correct modify for-3
.z
.x
	3/96	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.65--66
	incorporated into improved @for@ command in Stata 5.0

.e STB-30 @net:stb 30 sg50!sg50@
.c stb
.t Graphical assessment of linear trend
.a J. M. Garrett
.o @lintrend@ if installed
.k stat-istics trend linear dicho-tomous lintrend
.k plot-s plot-ting graph-s graph-ing pred-ictions pred-icted value-s graph-ics
.k model-s reg-ressions logis-tic logit log odds bina-ry outcome-s
.x
	3/96	pp.9-15; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.152--160
	graphically examines the relationship between the log odds
	of a binary outcome by categories of an ordinal or interval
	independent variable

.e STB-30 @net:stb 30 sg49!sg49@
.c stb
.t An improved command for paired t tests
.a J. R. Gleason
.o @rmttest@ if installed
.k equal-ity test-s test-ing mean-s ave-rages distrib-utions rmttest
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses stud-entst t-tests match-ed pair-s stat-istics
.k pair-ed repeated meas-urements
.x
	3/96	pp.6--9; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.147--152
	performs repeated measures (or matched-pairs) t test when
	pairs y1 and y2 are stored as values of a single response
	variable y

.e STB-30 @net:stb 30 snp10!snp10@
.c stb
.t Nonparametric regression:  Kernel, WARP and K-NN estimators
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu, Taniuchi
.k kern-el dens-ity est-imators est-imation stat-istics est-imates
.k smooth-ers smooth-ing hist-ograms nonpar-ametric non param-etric
.k warp-ing univar-iate distrib-utions reg-ressions kernreg warpreg gwarpreg
.k band-width width bands bin-s interv-als knnreg
.o @kernreg@, @knnreg@ if installed
.x
	3/96	pp.15-30; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.197--218
	performs kernel regression

.e STB-29 crc43
.c stb
.t Test nonlinear hypotheses after model estimation
.k equal-ity test-s coef-ficients model-s est-imation hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k chi-squared sq-uared chi-2 2 f-statistics stat-istics testparm
.k reg-ressions ml-e max-imum like-lihood contrast-s beta param-eters
.k cov-ariances constrain-ts est-imates nonlin-ear non linear wald test-ing
.o @testnl@
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.2--4; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.15--18
	incorporated into Stata 5.0

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 dm40!dm40@
.c stb
.t Converting string variables to numeric variables
.a R. M. Farmer
.o @conv2num@ if installed
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment conv2num var-iables str-ings num-eric convert real
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.8-9; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.48--49
	@destring@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-29 dm39
.c stb
.t Using .hlp files to document data analysis
.a M. Hills
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment docu-ment help anal-ysis descrip-tion
.x
	1/96	p.8; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.47--48		 (no commands)
	description of how one might use ^.hlp^ files to document
	data analysis

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 dm38!dm38@
.c stb
.t A more automated merge procedure
.a R. M. Farmer
.o @mergein@ if installed
.k comb-ine data-sets set-s join merge var-iables add mergein manage-ment
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.6--7; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.45--47
	automates merge process by guaranteeing that datasets are sorted
	and that neither contains ^_merge^ variable; also permits matching
	variables to have different names in the datasets

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 dm37!dm37@
.c stb
.t Extended merge capabilities
.a J. Faust
.o @xmerge@ if installed
.k comb-ine data-sets set-s join merge var-iables add xmerge-d dict-ionary
.k manage-ment
.x
	1/96	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.43--45
	merge two or more datasets or two or more dictionary files

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 dm27.1!dm27.1@
.c stb
.t Correction to improved collapse
.a W. Gould
.o @coll2@ if installed
.k aggregate stat-istics mean-s med-ians stand-ard dev-iations std sum-s
.k nonmiss-ing obs-ervations max-imums max-ima min-imums min-ima percent-iles
.k interquart-ile range set-s data-sets ave-rages centile-s creat-e make
.k count-s quantile-s non miss-ing freq-uencies freq-uency iqr quartile-s
.k func-tions contain-ing variance-s proc summ-ary collapse weight-s coll2
.k manage-ment total-s
.z
.x
	1/96	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.19
	improvements incorporated into improved @collapse@ command
	in Stata 5.0

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 gr19!gr19@
.c stb
.t Misleading or confusing boxplots
.a J. C. Nash
.k graph-ics graph-s plot-s box-plots miss-ing value-s scaled unscaled data
.x
	1/96	pp.14--17; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.60--64
	discussion of how scaling of data and/or missing values may
	lead to misleading boxplots

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 gr18!gr18@
.c stb
.t Graphing high-dimensional data using parallel coordinates
.a J. R. Gleason
.o @parcoord@ if installed
.k graph-ics graph-s parcoord coor-dinates paral-lel plot-s high dimen-sional
.k parc multiv-ariate data
.x
	1/96	pp.10--14; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.53--60
	produce ParC plots (parallel coordinate plots), a method for
	representing multivariate data

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 ip12!ip12@
.c stb
.t Parsing tokens in Stata
.a S. Becketti
.o @xparse@, @readtok@ if installed
.k prog-ramming prog-rams pars-e macro-s arg-uments user input-ting input-ing
.k xparse readtok
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.19--21; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.73--76
	programs that extend Stata's low-level parsing capabilities

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 ip11!ip11@
.c stb
.t A tool for manipulating s_# objects
.a J. R. Gleason
.o @s_no@ if installed
.k s_-no prog-ramming prog-rams util-ity s_-#
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.17--19; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.71--73
	programming tool; display or erase macros, scalars, or
	matrices with names of the form S_#

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 sg48!sg48@
.c stb
.t Predictions in the original metric for log-transformed models
.a R. Goldstein
.o @predlog@ if installed
.k predlog stat-istics pred-ictions transfo-rmations transfo-rmed log
.k retransfo-rmations smear-ing est-imates duan exp-onentiation
.x
	1/96	pp.27--29; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.145--147
	calculates three different retransformations, which allow
	obtaining predictions in the original metric

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 sg47!sg47@
.c stb
.t A plot and a test for the chi-squared distribution
.a P. Royston
.o @qchi@, @a2@ if installed
.k qqplot qchi a2 anderson-darling darling goodness fit prob-ability plot-s
.k norm-ality chi-squared square-d q-q quantile-s distrib-utions stat-istics
.k unif-orm
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.26--27; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.142--144
	produces a q-q plot for the chi-squared distribution; another
	command performs Anderson-Darling goodness-of-fit test for
	normal, uniform, and chi-squared distributions;
	incorporated into Stata 5

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 sg46!sg46@
.c stb
.t Huber correction for two-stage least squares estimates
.a M. Over, D. Jolliffe, A. Foster
.o @hreg2sls@ if installed
.k huber reg-ressions prob-ability weight-ing weight-s white-s meth-od
.k stand-ard err-ors std est-imates clus-tering weight-ed hreg hreg2sls iv
.k instrum-ental var-iables least sq-uares sq-uared two-stage stage 2sls tsls
.z
.x
	1/96	pp.24--25; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.140--142
	predecessor of robust estimator of variance introduced
	in Stata 5.0; see help @regress@

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 sg29.1!sg29.1@
.c stb
.t Tabulation of observed/expected ratios & conf. intervals
.a P. Sasieni
.o @smrby@ if installed
.k mortality smr stand-ardized stand-ardised tab-ulations tab-ulate ratio-s
.k conf-idence interv-als stat-istics smrby
.x
	1/96	pp.21--24; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.87--90
	improved version of ^smr^

.e STB-29 @net:stb 29 snp9!snp9@
.c stb
.t Kornbrot's rank difference test
.a R. Goldstein
.o @kornbrot@ if installed
.k equal-ity distrib-utions pop-ulations hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k match-ed pair-s test-s test-ing signrank data
.k nonpar-ametric rank-sums sum-s order non param-etric kornbrot ordinal
.k wilcox-on sign-edranks sign-ed two samp-les stat-istics
.x
	1/96	pp.29--31; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.195--197
	alternative to @signrank@ that is useful when one has ordinal data

.e STB-28 crc42
.c stb
.t Improvements to the heckman command
.k linear reg-ressions est-imation heckman selec-tion model-s mill-s ratio-s
.k multiv-ariate partici-pation stat-istics est-imates ml-e bias
.k max-imum like-lihood
.o @heckman@
.z
.x
	11/95	pp.6--7; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.13--15
	incorporated into Stata 5.0

.e STB-28 crc41
.c stb
.t New lfit, lroc, and lstat commands
.k lfit lroc lstat lsens stat-istics logis-tic reg-ressions
.k dicho-tomous bina-ry outcome-s model-s lpredict
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood step-wise logit
.o @lfit@
.z
.x
	11/95	pp.2--6; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.8--13
	incorporated into Stata 5.0

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 dm36!dm36@
.c stb
.t Comparing two Stata datasets
.a J. R. Gleason
.o @compdta@ if installed
.k compdta compar-e file-s two compar-isons data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	11/95	pp.10--13; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.39--43
	compare the varlist from the dataset in memory with like-named
	variables in the Stata-format dataset on disk; alternative to
	@cf@ command

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 dm35!dm35@
.c stb
.t A utility for surveying Stata-format datasets
.a T. J. Schmidt
.o @dtainfo@ if installed
.k dtainfo display content-s data-sets set-s var-iables descrip-tion
.k describe miss-ing value-s stor-age type-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	11/95	pp.7--9; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.36--39
	utility program that reports information about the contents of
	Stata-format datasets; program not available for Macintosh

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 ip10!ip10@
.c stb
.t Finding an observation number
.a S. Becketti
.o @findobs@ if installed
.k findobs prog-ramming prog-rams util-ity
.x
	11/95	pp.13--14; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.70--71
	display the observation number of the i-th observation that
	satisfies specified conditions; useful to programmers

.e STB-28 sbe12
.c stb
.t Using lfit and lroc to evaluate mortality prediction models
.a J. M. Tilford, P. K. Roberson, and D. H. Fiser
.k lfit lroc stat-istics mortality roc logis-tic logit pred-ictions
.k calibra-tion discrim-ination prism
.x
	11/95	pp.14--18; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.77--81	 (no commands)
	discussion of how the new @lfit@ and @lroc@ commands (see crc41)
	can be used to evaluate mortality prediction models

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 sg45!sg45@
.c stb
.t Maximum-likelihood ridge regression
.a R. L. Obenchain
.o @rxridge@, @rxrisk@, @rxrcrlq@, @rxrsimu@ if installed
.k rxrcrlq rxridge rxrmaxl rxrrisk rxrsimu stat-istics max-imum like-lihood
.k reg-ressions est-imation ridge rxrmkdta
.z
.x
	11/95	pp.22--35; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.121--140
	overview of ridge regression concepts along with programs
	to monitor the effects of shrinkage

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 sg44!sg44@
.c stb
.t Random number generators
.a J. Hilbe and W. Linde-Zwirble
.o @rnd@ if installed
.k rnd rand-om num-bers gen-erate gen-erators unif-orm norm-al student-s t
.k chi-squared square-d f poisson binom-ial gamma exp-onential weibull beta
.k rndbb rndbin rndbinx rndchi rndexp rndf rndgam rndgamx rndivg rndivgx
.k rndlgn rndpoi rndpoix rndt rndwei log-normal
.x
	11/95	pp.20--21; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.118--121
	programs to implement random number generators that allows user
	to generate synthetic data from a variety of distributions

.e STB-28 @net:stb 28 sg43!sg43@
.c stb
.t Modified t statistics
.a R. Goldstein
.o @modt@, @obrien@ if installed
.k modt modti obrien stat-istics equal-ity test-s test-ing mean-s ave-rages
.k distrib-utions hyp-othesis hyp-otheses immed-iate stud-entst t-tests
.k match-ed pair-s pair-ed unpair-ed stat-istics
.x
	11/95	pp.18--19; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.117--118
	alternative commands to @ttest@ and @ranksum@ for use when data is
	skewed, when the groups have unequal variance, or when there is
	heterogeneity of effect

.e STB-27 @net:stb 27 ip9!ip9@
.c stb
.t Repeat Stata command by variable(s)
.a P. Royston
.k lang-uage synt-ax repeat command-s by group-s each byvar
.o @byvar@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/95	pp.3--5; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.67--69
	ado commands byable in Stata 7.0

.e STB-27 @net:stb 27 snp6.2!snp6.2@
.c stb
.t Rules for bandwidth selection in univariate density estimation
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu, Taniuchi
.k univar-iate band-width width bands bin-s interv-als
.k hist-ograms kern-el bandw l2cvwarp bcvwarp kerneld warpden-s
.k kern-el dens-ity est-imators est-imation stat-istics est-imates
.k smooth-ers smooth-ing hist-ograms nonpar-ametric non param-etric
.k warp-ing univar-iate distrib-utions wardens
.o @bandw@, @warpden@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/95	pp.5--19; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.172--190
	surveys a variety of methods for selecting bandwidth for
	univariate density estimation; programs presented for
	determining reference values for bandwidth

.e STB-27 @net:stb 27 ssa8!ssa8@
.c stb
.t Analysis of case-control and prevalence studies
.a D. Clayton and M. Hills
.k conf-idence interv-als epitab preva-lence odds ratio-s relativ-e
.k stand-ardized test-s epi-demiological epi-demiology tabl-es conting-ency
.k model-s hyp-othesis hyp-otheses case-control control-s match-ed 1:1 1:k data
.k cumul-ative incid-ence expos-ed pop-ulations expos-ures stat-istics
.k mantel-haenszel haenszel chi-squared sq-uared chi-2 2 test-ing
.k strat-ified strat-um strata strat-ification binom-ial tabodds mhodds
.o @tabodds@, @mhodds@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/95	pp.26--31; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.227--233
	commands for analyzing case-control and prevalence studies using
	the simple tabulation and stratification methods described in
	Clayton and Hills, 1993, Statistical Models in Epidemiology;
	@tabodds@ and @mhodds@ were incorporated into Stata 6

.e STB-27 @net:stb 27 ssa7!ssa7@
.c stb
.t Analysis of follow-up studies
.a D. Clayton and M. Hills
.k stat-istics conf-idence interv-als smr epitab ratio-s risk-s rate-s
.k relativ-e mortality stand-ardized morbid-ity test-s epi-demiological
.k epi-demiology tabl-es conting-ency model-s hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k stand-ardization cumul-ative incid-ence person time expos-ed pop-ulations
.k expos-ures mantel-haenszel haenszel chi-squared sq-uared chi-2 2
.k strat-ified strat-um strata strat-ification
.k follow-up up data lexis tabrate mhrate test-ing
.o @lexis@, @tabrate@, @mhrate@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/95	pp.19--26; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.219--227
	commands for analyzing follow-up studies using the simple
	tabulation and stratification methods described in Clayton
	and Hills, 1993, Statistical Models in Epidemiology; ^tabrate^
	and ^mhrate^ are incorporated into Stata's @strate@, @stir@, @stmc@,
	and @stmh@ commands

.e STB-26 crc40
.c stb
.t Correcting for ties and zeros in sign and rank tests
.k equal-ity distrib-utions med-ians pop-ulations hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k match-ed pair-s u-statistic test-s test-ing signrank signtest mean-s
.k nonpar-ametric rank-sums sum-s order non param-etric
.k wilcox-on sign-edranks sign-ed mann-whitney whitney two samp-les stat-istics
.z
.x
	7/95	pp.2--4; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.5--8
	incorporated into Stata 5.0

.e STB-26 crc39
.c stb
.t How to make older ado-files work correctly
.k ado-files file-s version-s compat-ibility across release-s
.z
.x
	7/95	p.2; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.5			 (no commands)

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 dm34!dm34@
.c stb
.t Constructing axis labels for dates
.a S. Becketti
.o @yrxlab@ if installed
.k graph-s display-ed axis axes label-s format-s num-bers graph-ics
.k date-s month-s year-s data-sets set-s manage-ment yrxlab
.z
.x
	7/95	pp.8--11; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.32--36

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 dm33!dm33@
.c stb
.t Elapsed days using 30-day months
.a K. Heinecke
.o @days360@ if installed
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment elap-sed date-s month-s day-s360
.x
	7/95	p.8; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.31--32
	calculate the number of days between two given dates based
	on twelve 30-day months

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 dm32!dm32@
.c stb
.t Matching names in Stata
.a P. Sasieni
.o @nmatch@ if installed
.k name-s dup-licates match-ing data-sets set-s person surname-s people
.k last-names first-names manage-ment minlen nmatch replstr
.x
	7/95	pp.5--8; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.28--31
	identify person names that are near matches

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 dm31!dm31@
.c stb
.t Counting missing values: an extension to egen
.a R. Goldstein
.o @rmiss2@ if installed
.k egen data-sets set-s miss-ing value-s rmiss-2 manage-ment grmiss2
.z
.x
	7/95	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.27--28
 	@egen@'s ^rmiss()^ function now handles string variables;
	incorporated into Stata 6

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 ip8!ip8@
.c stb
.t An enhanced for command
.a P. Royston
.o @for2@ if installed
.k util-ity repeat command-s var-iables edit correct modify for-2
.z
.x
	7/95	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.65
	incorporated into improved @for@ command in Stata 5.0

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 sg42!sg42@
.c stb
.t Plotting predicted values from linear & logistic regr. models
.a J. Garrett
.o @regpred@, @logpred@ if installed
.k plot-s plot-ting graph-s graph-ing pred-ictions pred-icted value-s graph-ics
.k linear model-s reg-ressions logis-tic logit conf-idence interv-als
.k stat-istics regpred logpred
.x
	7/95	pp.18--23; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.111--116
	calculate and plot predicted values and 95 percent confidence
	intervals of the predictions for one predictor holding constant
	the other predictors

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 sg41!sg41@
.c stb
.t Random-effects probit
.a W. M. Sribney
.o @rfprobit@ if installed
.k bina-ry outcome-s model-s dicho-tomous risk-s est-imation ml-e max-imum
.k like-lihood reg-ressions probit rfprobit rfpr_ll1
.k qualita-tive stat-istics pred-ictions rfprobit est-imates
.k cross section-al time series panel-s data longi-tudinal stat-istics
.k fix-ed and rand-om effect-s mixed est-imators
.z
.x
	7/95	pp.15--18; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.107--111
	estimate a random-effects model for cross-sectional time-series
	probit; random-effects probit available in Stata 6

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 sg40!sg40@
.c stb
.t Testing for the mean of a skewed variable
.a R. Goldstein
.o @johnson@ if installed
.k johnson skew-ness sym-metry asym-metry norm-ality test-s test-ing t-tests
.k chen skew-ed hyp-otheses hyp-othesis distrib-utions stat-istics mean-s
.k nonnorm-ality
.x
	7/95	pp.13--15; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.104--107
	implements Johnson's corrected t test for skewed data and
	Chen's modification of Johnson's test

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 sg37.1!sg37.1@
.c stb
.t Orthogonal polynomials: correction
.a W. M. Sribney
.o @orthpoly@ if installed
.k linear reg-ressions mult-iple eq-uations collinear-ity orthpoly
.k orthog-onal stat-istics poly-nomials multicol-linearity
.z
.x
	7/95	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.98
	incorporated into Stata 5.0; see help @orthpoly@

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 sg35.1!sg35.1@
.c stb
.t Robust tests for the equality of variances: correction
.a M. A. Cleves
.k homog-eneity bartlett-s equal-ity stat-istics within between cell-s
.k robust levene-s brown forsythe variance-s skew-ness sym-metry asym-metry
.k norm-ality robvar test-s test-ing hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k stand-ard dev-iations std
.o @robvar@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/95	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.93
	incorporated into Stata 7.0

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 snp8.1!snp8.1@
.c stb
.t Robust scatterplot smoothing: correction
.a S. Becketti
.k graph-s lowess smooth-ing loess local-ly weight-ed scat-terplots plot-s ksm
.k reg-ressions noise two-way way graph-ics stat-istics display robust bina-ry
.k adjksm lorobwei roblowes robksm _adjksm _robksm
.o @adjksm@, @lorobwei@, @roblowes@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/95	p.31; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.194--195
	two ado-files were inadvertently omitted from the snp8 directory
	on the STB-25 disks in production; these are now supplied

.e STB-26 @net:stb 26 snp6.1!snp6.1@
.c stb
.t ASH, WARPing & kernel density estimation for univariate data
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu, Taniuchi
.k kern-el dens-ity est-imators est-imation stat-istics est-imates
.k smooth-ers smooth-ing hist-ograms nonpar-ametric non param-etric
.k warp-ings ash univar-iate distrib-utions kerncos kernepa kerngaus
.k kernquar kernsim kerntria kerntriw warpoly warpstep
.o @kernel@, @warping@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/95	pp.23--31; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.161--172
	introduces the ASH and WARPing procedures for density estimation
	and presents some ado-files and Turbo Pascal programs for their
	calculation

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 dm30!dm30@
.c stb
.t Comparing observations within a data file
.a R. Goldstein
.o @compobs@ if installed
.k compar-e two compar-isons data-sets set-s manage-ment compobs obs-ervations
.k dup-licates
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.25--27
	compare two observations within a dataset to help find
	duplicate and nearly duplicated observations

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 dm29!dm29@
.c stb
.t Create TeX tables from data
.a J. W. Hardin
.o @textab@ if installed
.k format-s tabl-es tex latex textab data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	5/95	pp.3--7; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.20--25
	generate TeX code to format tables of data

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 dm28!dm28@
.c stb
.t Calculate nice numbers for labeling or drawing grid lines
.a J. W. Hardin
.o @nicenum@ if installed
.k graph-s display-ed axis axes label-s format-s num-bers graph-ics grid line-s
.k nicenum round nice manage-ment data-sets set-s
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.2--3; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.19--20

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg39!sg39@
.c stb
.t Independent percentages in tables
.a B. Miller
.o @iptab@ if installed
.k tab-ulations tab-ulate stat-istics cat-egorical var-iables
.k indica-tor iptab conting-ency tabl-es freq-uencies freq-uency
.x
	5/95	pp.20--23; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.100--104
	alternative to @tabulate@; directly computes percentage of
	cases meeting specified requirements forming a kind of 3-way
	table

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg38!sg38@
.c stb
.t Generating quantiles
.a W. M. Sribney
.o @mkquant@ if installed
.k quantile-s stat-istics mkquant percent-iles centile-s
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.19--20; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.98--99
	predates @pctile@ introduced in Stata 5.0

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg37!sg37@
.c stb
.t Orthogonal polynomials
.a W. M. Sribney
.o @orthpoly@ if installed
.k linear reg-ressions mult-iple eq-uations collinear-ity orthpoly
.k orthog-onal stat-istics poly-nomials multicol-linearity
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.17--18; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.96--98
	incorporated into Stata 5.0; see help @orthpoly@

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg36!sg36@
.c stb
.t Tabulating the counts of multiple categorical variables
.a P. Sasieni
.o @tabw@ if installed
.k tab-ulations tab-ulate stat-istics tabw cat-egorical var-iables
.k count-s mult-iple total-s conting-ency tabl-es freq-uencies freq-uency
.x
	5/95	pp.15--17; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.93--96
	tabulates the number of times a variable takes on values
	0, 1, ... 9, the number of times it is missing, and the number
	of times it is equal to some other value

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg35!sg35@
.c stb
.t Robust tests for the equality of variances
.a M. A. Cleves
.k homog-eneity bartlett-s equal-ity stat-istics within between cell-s
.k robust levene brown forsythe variance-s skew-ness sym-metry asym-metry
.k norm-ality robvar test-s test-ing hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k stand-ard dev-iations std
.o @robvar@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.13--15; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.91--93
	incorporated into Stata 7.0

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg32.1!sg32.1@
.c stb
.t Variance inflation & decomposition: correction
.a J. W. Hardin
.o @vif@, @colldiag@ if installed
.k linear reg-ressions mult-iple eq-uations collinear-ity multicol-linearity
.k least sq-uared sq-uares dev-iations min-imums ordinary ols weight-ed
.k weight-s stat-istics model-s var-iables cov-ariances
.k variance-s std stand-ard err-ors est-imates est-imation vif colldiag
.x
	5/95	p.13; STB Reprints Vol 5, p.90
	@vif@ incorporated into Stata 5.0; @colldiag@ calculates the
	variance-decomposition proportions based on singular-value
	decomposition of the independent variables

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sg26.3!sg26.3@
.c stb
.t Fractional polynomial utilities
.a P. Royston
.k frac-tional poly-nomials model-s reg-ressions fp-show stat-istics
.k fpplot fpderiv fpgen fpgraph fpx _jprfpdt _jprfpdx _jprfpfp _jprfpgn
.k _jprfpin _jprfplx _jprfpmm _jprfppp _jrfpre _jrfprp _jprfpse _jprfptp
.k _jprfpxo
.z
.o @fp@, @fpshow@, @fpplot@, @fpderiv@ if installed
.x
	5/95	pp.9--13; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.82--87
	fractional polynomial regression was added to Stata 5.0;
	see help @fracpoly@

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 snp8!snp8@
.c stb
.t Robust scatterplot smoothing: enhancements to Stata's ksm
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu
.k graph-s lowess smooth-ing loess local-ly weight-ed scat-terplots plot-s ksm
.k reg-ressions noise two-way way graph-ics stat-istics display robust bina-ry
.k adjksm lorobwei roblowes _adjksm
.o @adjksm@, @lorobwei@, @roblowes@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.23--26; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.190--194
	@adjksm@ holds bandwidth of the smoother constant across x-values;
	@lorobwei@ calculates robust weights recommended by Cleveland and
	@roblowes@ uses these weights to compute the lowess smooth

.e STB-25 @net:stb 25 sts10!sts10@
.c stb
.t Prais-Winsten regression
.a J. W. Hardin
.k est-imation time series est-imates prais winsten durb-in watson
.k linear reg-ressions serial-ly corr-elations cochran-e orcut-t
.k autocor-relations model-s stat-istics
.o @prais@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/95	pp.26--29; STB Reprints Vol 5, pp.234--237
	@prais@ was incorporated into Stata 5.0

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 dm27!dm27@
.c stb
.t An improved collapse, with weights
.a W. Gould
.o @coll2@ if installed
.k aggregate stat-istics mean-s med-ians stand-ard dev-iations std sum-s
.k nonmiss-ing obs-ervations max-imums max-ima min-imums min-ima percent-iles
.k interquart-ile range set-s data-sets ave-rages centile-s creat-e make
.k count-s quantile-s non miss-ing freq-uencies freq-uency iqr quartile-s
.k func-tions contain-ing variance-s proc summ-ary collapse weight-s coll2
.k manage-ment total-s
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.5--8; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.40--43
	improvements incorporated into improved @collapse@ command
	in Stata 5.0

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 dm26!dm26@
.c stb
.t Labeling graphs with date formats
.a A. Riley
.o @datelab@ if installed
.k date-s func-tions graph-s graph-ing label-ing format-s datelab graph-ics
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.37--40

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 dm25!dm25@
.c stb
.t Recoding in steps
.a S. Becketti
.o @srecode@ if installed
.k alter data-sets set-s change replace
.k cat-egorical var-iables indica-tor recode modify srecode manage-ment
.x
	3/95	pp.2--3; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.35--37
	specialized @recode@ command that recodes in uniform intervals

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 gr17!gr17@
.c stb
.t Switching graphics windows in Unix
.a P. Sasieni
.o @winunix@ if installed
.k util-ity pipeline driver-s unix graph-ical output-ting output-ing pd
.k graph-ics graph-s pd gr1 gr2 win1 win2 winunix
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.67
	Stata 7.0 has new graphics system

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 ip6.2!ip6.2@
.c stb
.t Storing matrices as variables
.a W. M. Sribney
.o @svmat@, @matname@ if installed
.k creat-e matr-ices matr-ix large data-sets set-s svmat matname
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.9--10; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.71--73
	incorporated into Stata 5.0; see help @mkmat@

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sed9!sed9@
.c stb
.t Symmetric nearest neighbor linear smoothers
.a P. Sasieni
.k graph-s lowess smooth-ing loess local-ly weight-ed scat-terplots plot-s ksm
.k reg-ressions noise two-way way graph-ics stat-istics display robust bina-ry
.k running line-s
.o @running@ if installed
.x
	3/95	pp.10--14; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.97--101
	alternative to @ksm@; for use when the number of observations is
	large (because faster than @ksm@); does not permit arbitrary weights

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sg34!sg34@
.c stb
.t Jackknife estimation
.a W. Gould
.k est-imation jack-knife jknife jack-nife stand-ard std err-ors samp-ling
.k variance-s est-imates stat-istics
.o @jknife@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.25--29; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.165--170
	incorporated into Stata 7.0

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sg33!sg33@
.c stb
.t Calculation of adjusted means and adjusted proportions
.a J. Garrett
.o @adjmean@, @adjprop@ if installed
.k propor-tions mean-s adjust-ed adjmean adjprop stat-istics
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.22--25; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.161--165
	calculates covariate adjusted means or proportions by different
	categories of a nominal independent variable; for use as an
	alternative to @regress@ and @logistic@; predecessor to @adjust@
	command added in Stata 6

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sg32!sg32@
.c stb
.t Variance inflation factors & variance-decomposition proportions
.a J. W. Hardin
.o @vif@, @colldiag@ if installed
.k linear reg-ressions mult-iple eq-uations collinear-ity multicol-linearity
.k least sq-uared sq-uares dev-iations min-imums ordinary ols weight-ed
.k weight-s stat-istics model-s var-iables cov-ariances
.k variance-s std stand-ard err-ors est-imates est-imation vif colldiag
.x
	3/95	pp.17--22; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.154--160
	postestimation commands for use after ^fit^; @vif@ was
	incorporated into Stata 5.0; @colldiag@ calculates the
	variance-decomposition proportions based on singular-value
	decomposition of the independent variables

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sg26.2!sg26.2@
.c stb
.t Calculating and graphing fractional polynomials
.a S. Becketti
.k frac-tional poly-nomials model-s reg-ressions graph-s graph-ing fpcurve
.k graph-ics
.o @fpcurve@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.14--16; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.129--132
	fractional polynomial regression was added to Stata 5.0;
	see help @fracpoly@

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sg21.1!sg21.1@
.c stb
.t Equivalency testing: Correction
.a R. Goldstein
.k equiv-alence equiv-alency test-s test-ing hyp-othesis hyp-otheses mean-s
.k propor-tions equim-i equip-i stat-istics
.o @equim@, @equip@ if installed
.x
	3/95	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.102
	corrects minor bug in sg21

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 snp7.1!snp7.1@
.c stb
.t Natural cubic splines: Correction
.a P. Sasieni
.k cub-ic spline-s stat-istics sp_adj spbase
.o @spline@, @sp_adj@, @spbase@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/95	p.29; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.174
	corrects minor bug in snp7
	see @mkspline@ command incorporated into Stata 10

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 ssi5.4!ssi5.4@
.c stb
.t Correction to error term in Ridders' method
.a A. Riley
.o @ridder@ if installed
.k eq-uations solv-e solv-ing ridder-s meth-od stat-istics
.x
	3/95	p.29; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.202

.e STB-24 @net:stb 24 sts7.6!sts7.6@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint csunits cusum date2obs
.k datevars dickey dif downame dropoper faketemp filldate finddate findlag
.k findsmpl growth-i hansen-s lag lastbday lastday lead mdytodow mnthname
.k namedow namemnth numdays pac pearson-s period ppunit projdate quandt
.k regdiag scenario spear tauprob testsum today tsfit tsload tsmult
.k tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr ystrday
.k _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl
.k _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars
.k _ts_peri tslib
.o @tsnew@, @ts@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/95	pp.30--35; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.233--241
	list of programs of interest for performing time series analysis

.e STB-23 crc38
.c stb
.t Installing Stata for Windows under OS/2 Warp
.k stata instal-lation instal-ling os2 warp win-dows
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.16--17		 (no commands)

.e STB-23 crc37
.c stb
.t Commonly asked questions about Stata for Windows
.k help stata win-dows faq
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.15--16		 (no commands)

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 dm24!dm24@
.c stb
.t Producing formatted tables
.a W. H. Rogers
.k tabl-es format-ted data-sets set-s manage-ment t_crcs t_def t_drop
.k t_form t_fpar t_fval t_num t_print t_text
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.8--11; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.32--35

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 gr16!gr16@
.c stb
.t Convex hull programs
.a J. P. Gray and T. McGuire
.o @conhull@, @condraw@ if installed
.k convex hull-s conhull condraw graph-s graph-ics
.x
	1/95	pp.11-15; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.59--66
	identifies and graphs the outermost hull or all the hulls
	in a series of point sets

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 ip7!ip7@
.c stb
.t Utility for debugging Stata programs
.a T. J. Schmidt
.o @findbug@ if installed
.k debug prog-ramming prog-rams util-ity findbug
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.16--18; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.73--76
	incorporated into Stata 8.0; see help @trace@

.e STB-23 os15
.c stb
.t Impact of Pentium FDIV bug on Stata users
.a W. Gould
.k fdiv bug pentium win-dows dos interco-oled
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.5--8; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.82--87		 (no commands)
	Pentium bug unlikely to affect statistical users but a
	Pentium-aware version of Stata 4.0 is available

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 sg31!sg31@
.c stb
.t Measures of diversity:  absolute and relative
.a R. Goldstein
.o @rspread@ if installed
.k disper-sion entro-py relativ-e sgini-s coef-ficients inequal-ity
.k curve-s lorenz divers-ity distrib-utions equal-ity gini rspread stat-istics
.k segre-gation _gmdmean _gmdmed mdmean mdmed
.x
	1/95	pp.23--26; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.150--154
	8 measures of inequality or dispersion:  MD, AD, mean
	difference, CV, CD, Gini, S.E. of mean, max. percentage
	deviation from average

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 sg30!sg30@
.c stb
.t Measures of inequality
.a E. Whitehouse
.o @inequal@ if installed
.k disper-sion entro-py relativ-e sgini-s coef-ficients inequal-ity
.k curve-s lorenz divers-ity distrib-utions equal-ity gini stat-istics
.k atkinson inequal relsgini segre-gation
.x
	1/95	pp.20--23; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.146--150
	Lorenz curves and Gini coefficients

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 sg29!sg29@
.c stb
.t Tabulation of observed/expected ratios & conf. intervals
.a P. Sasieni
.o @smr@, @smri@ if installed
.k mortality smr stand-ardized stand-ardised tab-ulations tab-ulate ratio-s
.k conf-idence interv-als immed-iate smri stat-istics
.x
	1/95	pp.18--20; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.143--145
	standardized mortality ratios; useful for computing confidence
	intervals for ratios where the observed counts are Poisson and
	expected known without error

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 sqv10!sqv10@
.c stb
.t Expanded multinomial comparisons
.a W. H. Rogers
.o @mcross@ if installed
.k cat-egorical logis-tic logit mcross stat-istics reg-ressions multin-omial
.k polyt-omous mlogit case-control control-s odds ratio-s risk-s pred-ictions
.k est-imates qualita-tive model-s
.x
	1/95	pp.26--28; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.181--183
	Tables of coefficients comparisons after multinomial regression

.e STB-23 @net:stb 23 sts7.5!sts7.5@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint csunits cusum
.k datevars dickey dif downame dropoper faketemp finddate findlag
.k findsmpl growth-i hansen-s lag lastbday lastday lead mdytodow mnthname
.k namedow namemnth numdays pac pearson-s period ppunit quandt
.k regdiag spear tauprob testsum today tsfit tsload tsmult
.k tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr ystrday
.k _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl
.k _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars
.k _ts_peri tslib
.o @tsnew@, @ts@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/95	pp.28--29; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.232--233
	list of programs of interest for performing time series analysis

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 dm23!dm23@
.c stb
.t Saving a subset of the current data set
.a D. Mabb
.o @savin@ if installed
.k sav-e sav-ing subset-s data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	11/94	p.6; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.31--32
	save subset of the current dataset

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 dm22!dm22@
.c stb
.t Sorting in descending order
.a D. Mabb
.o @sortd@ if installed
.k sort ascend-ing descend-ing forw-ard reverse data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k alphab-etize str-ings reorder order obs-ervations alphan-umeric charac-ters
.k sortd
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.30--31
	predates @gsort@

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 dm21!dm21@
.c stb
.t Bringing large data sets into memory
.a R. M. Farmer
.o @bringin@ if installed
.k load-ing use data-sets set-s large mem-ory bringin manage-ment
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.3--5; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.28--30
	automatic repartitioning of memory introduced in Stata 5.0

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 dt2!dt2@
.c stb
.t Reading public use microdata samples into Stata
.a C. L. Sigmund and D. H. Judson
.k public use micro-data samp-les pums-a census data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	11/94	pp.6--11; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.44--49
	dictionary to read 1990 PUMS data

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 sg28!sg28@
.c stb
.t Multiple comparisons after regression-like methods
.a W. H. Rogers
.k mult-iple compar-isons mcompp stat-istics ehcvsrc mcompr-1 mcompr2 mcompr3
.o @mcompp@, @mcompr@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.15--19; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.137--142
	commands that produce p values adjusted for multiple comparisons

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 sg27!sg27@
.c stb
.t The overlapping coefficient & an improved rank-sum statistic
.a R. Goldstein
.k overlap-ping coef-ficients rank-sums sum-s dissim-ilarity signif-icance
.k ranksum2 stat-istics overlap-i mann-whitney whitney
.o @overlap@, @ranksum2@ if installed
.x
	11/94	pp.12--15; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.132--136
	commands to assess importance of statistically significant
	findings;  overlapping coefficient measures agreement between
	two distributions; improved rank-sum includes intuitive measure
	of how much data deviates from null hypothesis

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 sg26.1!sg26.1@
.c stb
.t Fractional polynomials: Correction
.a P. Royston and D. G. Altman
.k frac-tional poly-nomials model-s reg-ressions fp stat-istics
.k fpgen fpgraph fpx _jprfpdt _jprfpdx _jprfpfp _jprfpgn _jprfpin _jprfplx
.k _jprfpmm _jprfppp _jrfpre _jrfprp _jprfpse _jprfptp _jprfpxo
.o @fp@, @fpgen@, @fpgraph@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.11--12; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.128
	fractional polynomial regression was added to Stata 5.0;
	see help @fracpoly@

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 snp7!snp7@
.c stb
.t Natural cubic splines
.a P. Sasieni
.k cub-ic spline-s stat-istics sp_adj spbase
.o @spline@, @spbase@, @sp_adj@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.19--22; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.171--174
	alternative to @ksm@; smooths y-var against x-var and graphs
	original data with smooth superimposed
	see @mkspline@ command incorporated into Stata 10

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 ssa6!ssa6@
.c stb
.t Utilities for survival analysis with time-varying regressors
.a P. Bocquier
.k surviv-al time-varying vary-ing covariate-s censor-ing var-iables creat-e
.k occur-rence first locate identify firstocc slice tmerge stat-istics
.k censor _crctmge
.o @censor@, @firstocc@, @slice@, @tmerge@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.22--29; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.193--201
	utilities that assist in preparing data for survival analysis
 	when there are time-varying regressors

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 sss1.1!sss1.1@
.c stb
.t Updated U.S. marginal income tax rate function
.a T. J. Schmidt
.k marginal income tax rate-s calcul-ate calcul-ations egen data-sets set-s
.k manage-ment mtr _addop _tx_mtr1 _tx_mtr2 _tx_mtr3 _tx_mtr4 _tx_mtr5 _tx_rpl
.o @egen@
.z
.x
	11/94	p.29; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.224
	^mtr^ function added to @egen@ in Stata 4.0;
	data extended to cover years 1930 -- 1994

.e STB-22 @net:stb 22 sts7.4!sts7.4@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint csunits cusum
.k datevars dickey dif downame dropoper faketemp finddate findlag
.k findsmpl growth-i hansen-s lag lastbday lastday lead mdytodow mnthname
.k namedow namemnth numdays pac pearson-s period ppunit quandt
.k regdiag spear tauprob testsum today tsfit tsload tsmult
.k tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr ystrday
.k _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl
.k _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars
.k _ts_peri tslib
.o @tsnew@, @ts@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/94	pp.29--31; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.230--232
	list of programs of interest for performing time series analysis

.e STB-21 @net:stb 21 sbe11!sbe11@
.c stb
.t Direct standardization
.a T. McGuire and J. A. Harrison
.k stat-istics stand-ardization direct rate-s adjust-ed stand-ardized dstndiz
.o @dstndiz@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/94	pp.5--9; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.88--94
	predates @dstdize@

.e STB-21 @net:stb 21 sed8!sed8@
.c stb
.t Finding significant gaps in univariate distributions
.a R. Goldstein
.k univar-iate distrib-utions gap-s discon-tinuities wgap stat-istics
.o @wgap@ if installed
.x
	9/94	pp.10--11; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.95--96
	command that measures gaps in univariate distributions

.e STB-21 @net:stb 21 sg26!sg26@
.c stb
.t Fractional polynomials to model curved relationships
.a P. Royston and D. G. Altman
.k frac-tional poly-nomials model-s reg-ressions fp stat-istics fpshow
.k fpgen fpgraph fpx _jprfpdt _jprfpdx _jprfpfp _jprfpgn _jprfpin _jprfplx
.k _jprfpmm _jprfppp _jrfpre _jrfprp _jprfpse _jprfptp _jprfpxo
.o @fp@, @fpgen@, @fpgraph@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/94	pp.11--23; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.110--128
	fractional polynomial regression was added to Stata 5.0;
	see help @fracpoly@

.e STB-21 @net:stb 21 ssi6.2!ssi6.2@
.c stb
.t Faster and easier bootstrap estimation
.a W. Gould
.k est-imation boot-strapped stand-ard std err-ors samp-ling rand-om samp-les
.k clus-ters variance-s est-imates strat-ified stat-istics bs-trap simul
.k postfile post-clos post_fl post_zap
.o @bstrap@
.z
.x
	9/94	pp.24--33; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.211--223
	@bstrap@ incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-21 @net:stb 21 sts9!sts9@
.c stb
.t Johansen's test for cointegration
.a K. Heinecke & C. Morris
.k johans-ens coint-egration nonstatio-nary var-iables mlcoint lrcotest
.k stat-istics wcotest _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank _inlist tslib
.k _invlist _opnum _parsevl _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat
.k _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri ac chow coint cusum datevars dickey dif downame
.k dropoper faketemp finddate findlag findsmpl growth-i lag lastbday lastday
.k lead mdytodow mnthname namedow namemnth numdays pac pearson period ppunit
.k quandt regdiag spear stbdates tauprob testsum today ts-fit tsload tsmult
.k tsnew tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr ystrday coint-egrating
.o @mlcoint@, @lrcotest@, @wcotest@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/94	pp.33--39; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.249--257
	employs Johansen's method for determining the number of
	cointegrating relationships in a set of nonstationary variables;
	tests restrictions on the estimated cointegrating relationships

.e STB-20 crc36
.c stb
.t Clarification on analytic weights with linear regression
.k weight-s analytic reg-ressions linear stat-istics
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.2--3; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.14--15
	incorporated into Stata 4.0 manual

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 dm20!dm20@
.c stb
.t Date functions
.a A. Riley
.o @stbdates@ if installed
.k date-s func-tions data-sets set-s manage-ment stbdates downame lastbday
.k lastday mdytodow mnthname namedow namemnth numdays today ystrday
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.6--8; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.25--28
	new date functions added into Stata 6.0

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 dm19!dm19@
.c stb
.t Merging raw data and dictionary files
.a J. Nash
.o @mergedct@ if installed
.k dict-ionary comb-ine data-sets set-s join merge var-iables add mergedct
.k manage-ment
.x
	7/94	pp.3--5; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.22--25
	combine current dataset with raw or dictionary file

.e STB-20 ip6.1
.c stb
.t Data and matrices
.a W. Gould
.k creat-e matr-ices matr-ix large data-sets set-s
.x
	7/94	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.70--71		 (no commands)
	argument for using ^matrix accum^ to create data matrices

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 ip6!ip6@
.c stb
.t Storing variables in vectors and matrices
.a K. Heinecke
.o @mkmat@
.k creat-e matr-ices matr-ix data vec-tors mkmat
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.68--70
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 os14!os14@
.c stb
.t A program to format raw data files
.a P. Swagel
.k ascii rect-angularize data file-s read enter load input-ting input-ing
.k text block
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.10--12; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.80--82
	C program that takes an ASCII file as input and produces as
	output the same information arrayed rectangularly

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 sg25!sg25@
.c stb
.t Interaction expansion
.a W. Gould
.o xi
.k cat-egorical var-iables dum-my dum-mies indica-tor convert xi
.k model-s est-imation est-imates stat-istics xi_ei-cu xi_eii xi_mkun-2
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.12--18; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.102--110
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-20 ssi6.1
.c stb
.t Simplified Monte Carlo simulations
.a W. Gould
.k monte-carlo carlo exper-iments prog-rams prog-ramming simul-ations
.k post-file postclos
.o @simul@
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.22--24; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.207--210
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 ssi6!ssi6@
.c stb
.t Routines to speed Monte Carlo experiments
.a W. Gould
.k monte-carlo carlo exper-iments prog-rams prog-ramming simul-ations post-file
.k post_fl post_zap postclos
.o @postfile@
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.18--22; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.202--207
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 sts8!sts8@
.c stb
.t Hansen's test for parameter instability
.a K. Heinecke and C. Morris
.k hansen-s param-eters instab-ility stabil-ity model-s reg-ressions mkmat
.k stat-istics
.o @hansen@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.26--32; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.242--249
	test of the null hypothesis of constant parameters against the
 	alternative hypothesis that the parameters follow a martingale

.e STB-20 @net:stb 20 sts7.3!sts7.3@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint cusum
.k datevars dickey dif downame dropoper faketemp finddate findlag
.k findsmpl growth-i hansen-s lag lastbday lastday lead mdytodow mnthname
.k namedow namemnth numdays pac pearson-s period ppunit quandt
.k regdiag spear tauprob testsum today tsfit tsload tsmult
.k tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr ystrday
.k _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl
.k _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars
.k _ts_peri tslib
.o @tsnew@, @ts@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/94	pp.25--26; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.227--230
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 dm18!dm18@
.c stb
.t Adding trailing moving averages to the egen command
.a S. Becketti
.k ave-rages contain-ing creat-e mov-ing gen-erate var-iables
.k time series trail-ing tma data-sets set-s manage-ment newegen egen
.o @newegen@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.5--8; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.18--22
	create trailing moving averages; extension to Stata's @egen@ command

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 dm17!dm17@
.c stb
.t Conversions for international date formats
.a P. Ryan
.k date-s func-tions internat-ional intl format-s data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k ftoidate idatetof idates
.o @idates@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.18
	predecessor to Stata date format

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 gr15!gr15@
.c stb
.t Incorporating Stata graphs in TeX documents using an HP printer
.a S. Becketti
.k graph-s graph-ics tex hp print-ers print-ing
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.11--14; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.54--59

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 gr14!gr14@
.c stb
.t dotplot:  comparative scatterplots
.a P. Sasieni and P. Royston
.k dotplot-s dot plot-s graph-s graph-ics scat-terplots distrib-utions
.o @dotplot@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.8--10; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.50--54
	incorporated into Stata 5.0; see help @dotplot@

.e STB-19 os13
.c stb
.t Using awk and fgrep for selective extraction from log files
.a N. J. Cox
.k extrac-ting line-s log file-s check-ing data unix
.x
	5/94	pp.15--17; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.78--80	 (no commands)
	explanation of how to use awk to selectively extract comments
	from log files; explanation of how to use fgrep to selectively
	extract lines from log files

.e STB-19 os12
.c stb
.t Windowed interfaces for Stata
.a W. Gould
.k win-dowed interf-aces menu system-s win-dows
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.14--15; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.77--78	 (no commands)
	comments on StataQuest 1.0 pull-down menu system

.e STB-19 sg22.3
.c stb
.t Generalized linear models revision of glm.  Rejoinder
.a P. Royston
.k general-ized linear model-s glm stat-istics
.z
.x
	5/94	p.17; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.126			 (no commands)

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 sqv9!sqv9@
.c stb
.t Probit coefficients as changes in probabilities
.a W. Gould
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood probit est-imates dprobit stat-istics
.o @dprobit@
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.17--22; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.175--181
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-19 ssa5
.c stb
.t Note on time intervals in time-varying Cox regression
.a W. H. Rogers
.k stat-istics time vary-ing test-ing
.k propor-tional haz-ards model-s assump-tion test-s cox rate-s est-imates
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood epi-demiological epi-demiology
.x
	5/94	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.192			 (no commands)
	discussion of interpreting time intervals in time-varying
	Cox regression as [tn-1, tn) instead of (tn-1, tn]

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 ssa4!ssa4@
.c stb
.t Ex post tests and diagnostics for a proportional hazards model
.a W. H. Rogers
.k propor-tional haz-ards model-s assump-tion test-s test-ing cox rate-s
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood epi-demiological epi-demiology
.k partial scor-es est-imates phtest-1 phscore stat-istics phtest2
.o @phtest@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.23--27; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.186--191
	methods for assessing reasonableness of Cox proportional
	hazards assumption

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 ssa3!ssa3@
.c stb
.t Adjusted survival curves
.a W. H. Rogers
.k kaplan-meier meier surviv-al curve-s graph-s graph-ics akapm asurvcrv
.k _crcwsrv _wkapm _wsrvcrv
.o @survival@
.z
.x
	5/94	pp.22--23; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.184--185
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 ssi5.3!ssi5.3@
.c stb
.t Correction to Ridders' method
.a T. McGuire
.k eq-uations solv-e solv-ing ridder-s meth-od stat-istics
.o @ridder@ if installed
.x
	5/94	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 4, p.202
	fix of syntax-error problem when processing a long title line

.e STB-19 @net:stb 19 sts7.2!sts7.2@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint cusum datevars dickey dif
.k dropoper faketemp finddate findlag findsmpl growth-i hansen-s lag lead
.k numdays pac pearson-s period ppunit quandt regdiag spear tauprob testsum
.k tsfit tsload tsmult tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0
.k _getrres _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl _partset _sfran _subchar
.k _ts_dsmp _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri tslib
.z
.o @ts@, @tsnew@ if installed
.x
	5/94	pp.28--30; STB Reprints Vol 4, pp.225--227
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sg24!sg24@
.c stb
.t The piecewise linear spline transformation
.a C. Panis
.o @lspline@ if installed
.k stat-istics piecewise linear transfo-rmations spline-s nonlin-earities lspline
.z
.x
	3/94	pp.27--29; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.146--149
	command to explore nonlinearities by performing piecewise
	linear spline transformation
	see @mkspline@ command incorporated into Stata 10

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sg23!sg23@
.c stb
.t Determination of Gaussian components in mixed distributions
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu, & Taniuchi
.k mixed distrib-utions determ-ination determ-ine gauss-ian compon-ents
.k bhatt-acharyas meth-od freq-uency kern-el smooth-ing smooth-ers
.k graph-s graph-ics bhatado bhatmesd bhatplot diflogen gaussgen
.o @bhatado@ if installed
.x
	3/94	pp.15--27; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.127--146
	techniques to separate mixed frequency distributions into
	their individual components

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sg22.2!sg22.2@
.c stb
.t Certifications of glmr
.a W. Gould
.k general-ized linear model-s glm stat-istics testproc
.k asserteq chkdp chksumm eqmat jumble mateq rcof setfwid typeof vserteq
.z
.x
	3/94	pp.13--14; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.123--125
	test scripts for ^glmr^; ^glmr^ name changed to @glm@ and
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-18 sg22.1
.c stb
.t Comment on Royston's revision of glm
.a J. Hilbe
.k general-ized linear model-s glm stat-istics
.z
.x
	3/94	pp.11--13; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.121--123	 (no commands)

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sg22!sg22@
.c stb
.t Generalized linear models: revision of glm
.a P. Royston
.k general-ized linear model-s glm-r stat-istics _glmmapf _glmmapl _glmrpt
.k _jprglef _jprglfl _jprglil _jprglld _jprglwz
.o @glm@
.z
.x
	3/94	pp.6--11; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.112--121
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sg16.5!sg16.5@
.c stb
.t Negative binomial regression
.a J. Hilbe
.k neg-ative binom-ial reg-ressions model-s glm general-ized linear stat-istics
.k _glmfl _glmilnk _glmwgt
.z
.x
	3/94	pp.2--5; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.84--88
	alternative to Stata's ^nbreg^ command; perform negative binomial
	regression within context of glm; ability to perform negative
	binomial regression within context of glm now available in Stata

.e STB-18 @net:stb 18 sts7.1!sts7.1@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint cusum datevars dickey dif
.k dropoper faketemp finddate findlag findsmpl growth hansen-s lag lead numdays
.k pac pearson-s period ppunit quandt regdiag spear tauprob testsum tsfit
.k tsload tsmult tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres
.k _gtrank _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp
.k _ts_flag _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri tslib
.z
.o @ts@, @tsnew@ if installed
.x
	3/94	pp.29--32; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.229--233
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-17 cc2
.c stb
.t Running the Stata tutorials on a network
.a A. Reese
.k tut-orials net-work
.z
.x
	1/94	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.14--15		 (no commands)

.e STB-17 crc35
.c stb
.t Warning about parity checking on DOS computers
.k parity computer-s check-ing
.z
.x
	1/94	p.6; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.24			 (no commands)

.e STB-17 crc34
.c stb
.t Programming command: marking observations for inclusion
.o @mark@
.k prog-rams prog-ramming mark
.z
.x
	1/94	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.22--24
	undocumented command added to Stata 3.1; documented in Stata 4.0

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 dm16!dm16@
.c stb
.t Compact listing of a single variable
.a P. Royston and P. Sasieni
.o @lw@ if installed
.k list var-iables display content-s view data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k lw lw_gfmt lw_unit
.x
	1/94	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.41--43
	list a single variable across the page

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 ip5!ip5@
.c stb
.t A solution to a problem with temporary variable names
.a C. S. Hakkio
.o @faketemp@ if installed
.k temp-orary var-iables name-s comb-ine oper-ators time series faketemp
.k prog-ramming prog-rams
.z
.x
	1/94	pp.8--10; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.59--61
	create temporary variable names that can be combined with operators

.e STB-17 os5.1
.c stb
.t Running Intercooled Stata under OS/2 2.1
.a W. Gould
.k os-2
.z
.x
	1/94	p.11; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.62--63		 (no commands)

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sg21!sg21@
.c stb
.t Equivalency testing
.a R. Goldstein
.k equiv-alence equiv-alency test-s test-ing hyp-othesis hyp-otheses mean-s
.k propor-tions equim-i equip-i stat-istics
.o @equim@, @equip@ if installed
.x
	1/94	pp.13--18; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.107--112
	test null hypothesis that means (or proportions) differ by at
	least X against the alternative that they differ by less than X

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sg20!sg20@
.c stb
.t Point biserial correlation
.a J. A. Anderson
.k point biser-ial corr-elations coef-ficients dicho-tomous bina-ry var-iables
.k pbis stat-istics
.z
.o @pbis@ if installed
.x
	1/94	pp.12--13; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.104--106
	see help @correlate@

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sqc1!sqc1@
.c stb
.t Estimating process capability indices with Stata
.a S. L. C. Saw and T. W. Soon
.k qc quality control process capab-ility indic-es index specifica-tion
.k limit-s pciest stat-istics
.o @pciest@ if installed
.x
	1/94	pp.18--19; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.174--175
	calculate single specification limit capability indices

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 ssi5.2!ssi5.2@
.c stb
.t Equation solving by Ridders' method
.a T. McGuire
.k eq-uations solv-e solv-ing ridder-s meth-od stat-istics
.o @ridder@ if installed
.x
	1/94	pp.19--22; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.193--196
	alternative equation solving technique to bisection method

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sts7!sts7@
.c stb
.t A library of time series programs for Stata
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts-new stat-istics ac chow coint cusum datevars dickey dif
.k dropoper finddate findlag findsmpl growth hansen-s lag lead numdays pac
.k pearson-s period ppunit quandt regdiag spear testsum tsfit tsload tsmult
.k tspred tsreg unitroot xcorr _ac _addl _addop _cu_c0 _getrres _gtrank
.k _inlist _invlist _opnum _parsevl _partset _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_flag
.k _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri tslib
.z
.o @ts@ if installed
.x
	1/94	pp.28--32; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.224--229
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sts6!sts6@
.c stb
.t Approximate p-values for unit root and cointegration tests
.a C. S. Hakkio
.k p-values value-s unit root coint-egration test-s test-ing time series
.k nonstatio-nary var-iables dickey-fuller fuller engle-granger granger
.k phillips-perron perron tauprob stat-istics coint-egrating
.o @tauprob@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/94	pp.25--28; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.219--224
	calculate p-values for Dickey-Fuller, Phillips-Perron, and
	Engle-Granger tests; Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron tests
	incorporated into Stata 6

.e STB-17 @net:stb 17 sts5!sts5@
.c stb
.t Detrending with the Hodrick-Prescott filter
.a T. J. Schmidt
.k time series smooth-s smooth-ing smooth-ers hodrick prescot-t filter-s
.k detrend-ing noise trend extrac-t hpfilter stat-istics
.o @hpfilter@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/94	pp.22--24; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.216--219
	technique for isolating the trend component from a time series

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 dm15!dm15@
.c stb
.t Interactively list values of variables
.a A. Riley
.k list var-iables display content-s view set-s large browse manage-ment
.k interactive-ly data-sets br2 browsew brset
.z
.x
	11/93	pp.2--6; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.37--41

.e STB-16 sg16.4
.c stb
.t Comparison of nbreg and glm for negative binomial
.a W. H. Rogers
.k neg-ative binom-ial reg-ressions model-s glm general-ized linear stat-istics
.x
	11/93	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.82--84		 (no commands)
	comparison of performing negative binomial regression based
	on full maximum-likelihood versus using a standard power-link
	GLM framework

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 sg16.3!sg16.3@
.c stb
.t Quasi-likelihood modeling using an enhanced glm command
.a J. Hilbe
.k glm general-ized linear model-s quasi-likelihood like-lihood stat-istics
.k gpredict _glmfl _glmilnk _glmwgt
.z
.x
	11/93	p.6; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.81--82

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 snp6!snp6@
.c stb
.t Exploring univariate data using kernel density estimators
.a Salgado-Ugarte, Shimizu, Taniuchi
.k kern-el dens-ity est-imators est-imation stat-istics est-imates adgaker2
.k smooth-ers smooth-ing hist-ograms nonpar-ametric non param-etric
.k adgakern boxdetr2 boxdetra cosdetra kernepa kerngaus kernsim
.o @boxdetra@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/93	pp.8--19; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.155--173
	overview of the subject of univariate kernel density estimation;
	predecessor to Stata's @kdensity@ command added to Stata 4.0

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 ssi5.1!ssi5.1@
.c stb
.t Graphing functions
.a W. Gould
.k graph-s func-tions graph-ics fcnplot
.o @fcnplot@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/93	pp.23--26; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.188--193

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 ssi5!ssi5@
.c stb
.t Equation solving by bisection
.a W. Gould
.k eq-uations solv-e solv-ing bisect-ion meth-od stat-istics
.o @bisect@ if installed
.x
	11/93	pp.20--23; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.184--188

.e STB-16 @net:stb 16 sts4.1!sts4.1@
.c stb
.t More on time series regression
.a S. Becketti
.k time series stat-istics datevars dif dropoper findsmpl growth lag lead
.k period regdiag testsum tsfit tsmult tsreg _ac _addl _gtrank _inlist _invlist
.k _parsevl _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri tslib
.o @period@, @regdiag@, @tsfit@, @lag@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/93	pp.26--27; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.215
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-15 crc33
.c stb
.t Linear spline construction
.o @mkspline@
.k linear spline-s graph-s piecewise reg-ressions func-tions model-s graph-ics
.k mkspline
.z
.x
	9/93	pp.2--4; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.20--22
	incorporated into Stata 4.0

.e STB-15 crc32
.c stb
.t Correction to 3.1 manual description of S_MACH
.k system macro-s computer-s type
.z
.x
	9/93	p.2; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.19
	fixed in Stata 4.0 manual

.e STB-15 @net:stb 15 dt1!dt1@
.c stb
.t Five data sets for teaching
.a J. T. Anagnoson
.k teach-ing data-sets set-s
.x
	9/93	pp.4--7; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.44--48
	datasets that can be used for classroom exercises and
	demonstrations

.e STB-15 gr13.1
.c stb
.t \special{} effects with Stata graphs in TeX documents
.a S. Becketti
.k tex graph-s graph-ics
.z
.x
	9/93	pp.12--13; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.56		 (no commands)

.e STB-15 @net:stb 15 gr13!gr13@
.c stb
.t Incorporating Stata PostScript files into TeX/Latex documents
.a T. W. Soon and S. L. C. Saw
.k posts-cript file-s tex latex graph-s graph-ics
.z
.x
	9/93	pp.7--12; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.49--56

.e STB-15 sg19
.c stb
.t Linear splines and piecewise linear functions
.a W. Gould
.k linear spline-s piecewise func-tions nonlin-ear data stat-istics
.x
	9/93	pp.13--17; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.98--104	 (no commands)
	discussion of some alternative methods for handling
	nonlinear relationships in data

.e STB-15 @net:stb 15 sss1!sss1@
.c stb
.t Calculating U.S. marginal income tax rates
.a T. J. Schmidt
.k marginal income tax rate-s calcul-ate calcul-ations egen data-sets set-s
.k manage-ment mtr _tx_mtr1 _tx_mtr2 _tx_mtr3 _tx_mtr4 _tx_mtr5 _tx_rpl
.z
.o @egen@
.x
	9/93	pp.17--19; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.197--200
	data covers years 1930 -- 1990; ^mtr^ function was added
	to @egen@

.e STB-15 @net:stb 15 sts4!sts4@
.c stb
.t A suite of programs for time series regression
.a S. Becketti
.k time series stat-istics datevars dif dropoper findsmpl growth lag lead
.k period regdiag testsum tsfit tsmult tsreg
.k _ac _addl _gtrank _inlist _invlist _parsevl _sfran _subchar _ts_dsmp
.k _ts_gdat _ts_meqn _ts_pars _ts_peri tslib
.o @period@, @regdiag@, @tsfit@, @lag@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/93	pp.20--28; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.204--215
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-14 cc1
.c stb
.t Stata chosen for the Medicare program
.a C. Chapin
.k medica-re health quality
.z
.x
	7/93	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.13--14		 (no commands)
	description of HCFA program to assure quality of medical
	care rendered to Medicare beneficiaries

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 dm14.1!dm14.1@
.c stb
.t Converting Stata elapsed dates to Julian dates
.a S. Becketti
.k date-s func-tions julian elap-sed etoj data-sets set-s manage-ment
.o @etoj@ if installed
.x
	7/93	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.36

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 dm14!dm14@
.c stb
.t Converting Julian dates to Stata elapsed dates
.a C. Chapin
.k date-s func-tions julian elap-sed jtoe data-sets set-s manage-ment
.o @jtoe@ if installed
.x
	7/93	pp.8--10; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.34--36

.e STB-14 os11
.c stb
.t A poor-man's windowing environment for Stata
.a P. Geiger
.k win-dowing
.z
.x
	7/93	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.69--70		 (no commands)
	out-of-date alternatives to Microsoft Windows

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 os10!os10@
.c stb
.t A method for taking notes during a Stata session
.a W. Rising
.o @addnote@, @notefile@ if installed
.k take tak-ing note-s dur-ing sess-ions addnote notefile data
.x
	7/93	pp.10--11; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.68--69
	allows appending notes to a file without interrupting a
	Stata session

.e STB-14 qs7
.c stb
.t Maximum-likelihood estimation of Gaussian mixtures
.a I. Salgado-Ugarte
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood gauss-ian mix-tures est-imates
.k stat-istics
.z
.x
	7/93	pp.14--16; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.73--76	 (no commands)
	Requests collaboration in writing ado-file to estimate
	the Gaussian mixture model via maximum likelihood; see sg23

.e STB-14 qs6
.c stb
.t Query for chemists, physiologists, and pharmacologists
.a P. Geiger
.k chem-istry biochem-istry physio-logy pharma-cology
.z
.x
	7/93	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.73			 (no commands)
	Request to share ado.files on the use of Stata in solving
	problems in chemistry, physiology, and pharmacology

.e STB-14 qs5
.c stb
.t How to create stacked bar charts of percentages
.a F. Knaul
.k stack-ed bar-s chart-s graph-s percenta-ges graph-ics
.z
.x
	7/93	pp.12--13; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.71--72	 (no commands)

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 sg18!sg18@
.c stb
.t An improved R-squared
.a P. Royston and R. Goldstein
.k r-squared sq-uared r-2 -2 coef-ficients determ-ination power-s
.k brsq stat-istics transfo-rmations
.o @brsq@ if installed
.x
	7/93	pp.19--22; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.94--98
	calculate r-squared to compare the fit of a model in which
	the response variable is untransformed with that of one in
	which the response is subjected to a power transformation

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 sg16.2!sg16.2@
.c stb
.t A unified power-link program including negative binomial
.a J. Hilbe
.k neg-ative binom-ial reg-ressions model-s glm stat-istics gpredict
.k _glmfl _glmilnk _glmwgt
.z
.x
	7/93	pp.16--19; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.78--81
	predecessor to Stata's @glm@ command

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 snp5!snp5@
.c stb
.t The run test for random order
.a S. Becketti
.k run-s rand-om order serial-ly indep-endent test-s test-ing runtest
.k nonpar-ametric non param-etric stat-istics
.o @runtest@
.z
.x
	7/93	pp.22--26; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.150--155
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-14 @net:stb 14 ssi4!ssi4@
.c stb
.t Confidence intervals in logit and probit models
.a W. Gould
.k conf-idence interv-als logit probit model-s stat-istics doit header memset
.k report
.x
	7/93	pp.26--28; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.182--184
	discussion of whether confidence intervals for logit and
	probit models should be calculated using the t distribution

.e STB-13 crc31
.c stb
.t Categorical variable histogram
.k freq-uencies freq-uency graph-s hist-ograms cat-egorical var-iables data
.k pop-ulations univar-iate distrib-utions display dens-ity
.k stat-istics mode-s graph-ics
.o @hist@
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.17--19
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-13 crc30
.c stb
.t Linearly interpolate (extrapolate) values
.k data interpo-late extrap-olate value-s linear-ly
.k interpo-lations extrap-olations ipolate
.o @ipolate@
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.16--17
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-13 dm13.1
.c stb
.t String manipulation functions
.a W. Gould
.k func-tions str-ings data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.11--13; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.32--34
	predecessor to string functions added to Stata 4.0

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 dm13!dm13@
.c stb
.t Person name extraction
.a W. Gould
.o @extrname@, @replstr@ if installed
.k name-s people person data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k last-names first-names extrname
.k dup-licates match-ing surname-s exchstr minlen mixcase replstr replword
.k splitstr trimblnk _crcexn1 _crcexn2 _crcexn4 _crcexn5 _crcexn6 _crcexn7
.k _crcexn8 _crcexn9 _crcexna _crcexnb _crcexnc _crcexnd _crcexne _crcexnf
.k _crcexnt
.x
	5/93	pp.6--11; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.25--31

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 dm12.1!dm12.1@
.c stb
.t Selecting claims from medical claims data bases, update
.a R. J. Vaughn
.o @anydx@ if installed
.k claim-s medic-al select anydx data-sets set-s manage-ment anyproc
.z
.x
	5/93	p.6; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.25
	@icd9@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 ip4!ip4@
.c stb
.t Program debugging command
.a S. Becketti
.o @pause@
.k prog-ramming debug prog-rams pause wait
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.13--14; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.57--58
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 os9!os9@
.c stb
.t Printing Stata log files
.a S. Becketti
.o @printlog@ if installed
.k print-ing edit output-ting output-ing result-s preserve log-s record-s
.k sess-ions sav-e batch job-s file-s copy sav-ing printlog data
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.17--18; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.66--67

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 os8!os8@
.c stb
.t Stata and Lotus 1-2-3
.a P. Royston and W. Gould
.o @limport@, @lotus@ if installed
.k lotus statt-ransfer import-ing expor-ting data transfe-r limport lexport
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.14--17; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.63--66
	commands for DOS users that make going between Stata and
	Lotus 1-2-3 easier

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 sg17!sg17@
.c stb
.t Regression standard errors in clustered samples
.a W. H. Rogers
.k reg-ressions std stand-ard err-ors clus-tered samp-les model-s robust
.k est-imation survey-s logis-tic logit probit variance-s linear least sq-uares
.k ordinary ols huber white-s meth-od weight-ed bias-ed est-imates
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity clus-tering samp-ling hier-archical
.k design effect-s prob-ability weight-ing weight-s analytic stat-istics hreg2
.o @hreg2@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.19--23; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.88--94
	predates the survey commands introduced in Stata 5.0;
	see help @svy@

.e STB-13 sg11.2
.c stb
.t Calculation of quantile regression standard errors
.a W. H. Rogers
.k quantile-s reg-ressions std stand-ard err-ors resid-uals
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity boot-strapped stat-istics
.x
	5/93	pp.18--19; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.77--78	 (no commands)
	more detailed description of the Koenker and Bassett method
	for calculating @qreg@ standard errors

.e STB-13 sg5.1
.c stb
.t Correlation coefficients with significance levels, update
.a S. Becketti
.k corr-elations coef-ficients pearson-s prod-uct mom-ent spearman-s rank-s
.k kendall-s tau beta stat-istics spear
.o @spearman@
.z
.x
	5/93	p.18; STB Reprints Vol 3, p.77
	incorporated into Stata

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 sqv8!sqv8@
.c stb
.t Interpreting multinomial logistic regression
.a L. C. Hamilton and C. L. Seyfrit
.k logis-tic reg-ressions multin-omial logit
.x
	5/93	pp.24--28; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.176--181
	tutorial on multinomial logistic regression

.e STB-13 @net:stb 13 sts3!sts3@
.c stb
.t Cross correlations
.a S. Becketti
.k corr-elations cross time series var-iables lag-s xcorr stat-istics
.k lag pearson-s period spear _addl _ts_peri
.o @xcorr@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/93	pp.28--30; STB Reprints Vol 3, pp.201--203
	calculates correlations between two variables at different lags

.e STB-12 crc29
.c stb
.t Macintosh report
.k mac-intosh
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.5--7; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.24--26
	Minor bugs with Stata 3.0 Macintosh version

.e STB-12 crc28
.c stb
.t Repeat command with specified arguments
.k util-ity repeat command-s var-iables data edit correct modify for
.o @for@
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.23--24
	command name changed to @for@; incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-12 crc27
.c stb
.t More extensions to generate: categorical variables
.k group-ing var-iables creat-e cat-egorical egen data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.o @egen@
.x
	3/93	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.21--22
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 dm12!dm12@
.c stb
.t Selecting claims from medical claims data bases
.a R. J. Vaughn
.o @anydx@ if installed
.k claim-s medic-al select anydx data-sets set-s manage-ment anyproc
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.11--12; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.41
	@icd9@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 dm11!dm11@
.c stb
.t Matching the Current Population Surveys
.a F. Welch
.k curr-ent pop-ulations survey-s cps match-ing record-s char
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	3/93	pp.7--11; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.34--40
	allow adjacent-year matching of records from the Current
	Population Surveys (CPS)

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 gr12!gr12@
.c stb
.t Graphs of means and medians by categorical variables
.a W. Gould
.k cat-egorical data var-iables graph-ics graph-s mean-s med-ians stat-istics
.k group grmeanby
.o @grmeanby@
.z
.x
	3/93	p.13; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.44--45
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 gr3.1!gr3.1@
.c stb
.t Crude 3-dimensional graphics revisited
.a W. Gould
.k 3-dimensional dimen-sional three-dimensional graph-s graph-ics
.k gr3-q gr3save gr3set gr3use restore _3dax0 _3daxmin _3daxout _3daxtbl
.k _3ddflts _3dmkdta _3dmnmx _3dproj _3drproj _3drshow _3dshad _3dsvusr
.o @gr3@ if installed
.x
	3/93	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.42--43

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 sbe2.2!sbe2.2@
.c stb
.t Faster hpredict.exe
.a H. Krakauer
.k pred-ict bailey-makeham makeham model-s large data-sets set-s surviv-al
.k stat-istics
.z
.x
	3/93	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.81
	faster, recompiled version of predict.exe, which is for use
	with Bailey-Makeham models

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 sbe2.1!sbe2.1@
.c stb
.t Bailey-Makeham survival models
.a W. H. Rogers
.k bailey-makeham makeham model-s surviv-al stat-istics mpredict msurface
.o @bailey@, @mpredict@, @msurface@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/93	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.81
	update of ado-files to take advantage of new programming
	features added to Stata

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 sg16.1!sg16.1@
.c stb
.t Generalized linear models using power links
.a J. Hilbe
.k glm-p general-ized linear model-s stat-istics _glmresd lmresd
.z
.x
	3/93	p.15; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.160--161

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 sg1.5!sg1.5@
.c stb
.t Standard nonlinear curve fits update
.a P. Royston
.k est-imation mult-iple stat-istics r-squared sq-uared r-2 2 est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl sq-uared dev-iations reg-ressions min-imums
.k nlexp2 nlexp2a nlexp3 nlfcns nlgom3 nlgom4 nllog3 nllog4
.o @nl@
.z
.x
	3/93	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.121--122
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-12 @net:stb 12 sqv7!sqv7@
.c stb
.t Cusum plots and tests for binary variables
.a P. Royston
.k cat-egorical data non param-etric stat-istics graph-ics cusum-b
.k graph-s cumul-ative bina-ry var-iables sum-s nonpar-ametric test-s test-ing
.o @cusum@
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.16--17; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.175--177
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-12 tt6.2
.c stb
.t Duxbury Press looking for courseware authors
.a S. Loll
.k teach-ing course-ware author-s
.z
.x
	3/93	p.32; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.242			 (no commands)
	announcement that Duxbury Press would like to find people
	interested in writing courseware in Stata

.e STB-12 tt6.1
.c stb
.t Courseware guidelines
.k teach-ing course-ware
.a W. Gould & W. H. Rogers
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.28--31; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.238--241	 (no commands)
	discussion of why a statistical courseware system should
	be written in Stata

.e STB-12 tt6
.c stb
.t Courseware
.k teach-ing course-ware cw qa
.a W. Gould & W. H. Rogers
.z
.x
	3/93	pp.17--28; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.224--237
	general outline and program for a courseware -- software
	intended to assist in teaching -- system in Stata; software
	is no longer available

.e STB-11 crc26
.c stb
.t Improvement to poisson
.k poisson reg-ressions est-imation model-s est-imates stat-istics
.z
.x
	1/93	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.21
	improvement to @poisson@'s iterative convergence procedure;
	improvements incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 crc25
.c stb
.t Problem with tobit
.k tobit est-imation linear reg-ressions model-s est-imates stat-istics
.z
.x
	1/93	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.21
	problem reported with @tobit@ in presence of outliers;
	fix incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 crc24
.c stb
.t Error in corc
.k linear reg-ressions cochran-e orcut-t est-imation est-imates stat-istics
.z
.x
	1/93	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.20--21
	problem with @corc@; fix incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 ip3.1!ip3.1@
.c stb
.t Stata programming
.a W. Gould
.k prog-ramming prog-rams new add command-s hinflu
.o @hinflu@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/93	pp.5--9; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.66--72
	instruction on how to create a new Stata command to calculate
	a statistic not previously available

.e STB-11 os7.3
.c stb
.t CRC committed to Stata's command language
.a W. Gould
.k win-dowed operating system-s command-s lang-uage interf-aces
.z
.x
	1/93	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.80			 (no commands)

.e STB-11 os7.2
.c stb
.t Response to Stata and windowed interfaces
.a W. Gould
.k win-dowed operating system-s command-s lang-uage interf-aces
.z
.x
	1/93	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.79--80		 (no commands)

.e STB-11 os7.1
.c stb
.t Stata and windowed interfaces
.a W. Rising
.k win-dowed operating system-s command-s lang-uage interf-aces
.z
.x
	1/93	p.9; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.78--79		 (no commands)

.e STB-11 sbe10
.c stb
.t An improvement to Poisson
.a G. Rodriguez
.k poisson reg-ressions est-imation model-s est-imates stat-istics
.z
.x
	1/93	pp.11--14; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.94--98
	suggested change to @poisson@'s iterative convergence
	procedure; change incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 sbe7.1!sbe7.1@
.c stb
.t Hyperbolic regression correction
.a P. Geiger
.k hyperb-olic reg-ressions stat-istics hbolic
.o @hbolic@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/93	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.89
	fix of syntax-error problem

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 sed7.2!sed7.2@
.c stb
.t Twice reroughing proc. for resistant nonlinear smoothing
.a I. Salgado-Ugarte & J. Curts-Garcia
.k graph-s smooth-ing smooth-ers resist-ant robust nonlin-ear smtwice sm4253eh
.k noise med-ians two-way way scat-terplots plot-s graph-ics stat-istics
.z
.o @smtwice@ if installed
.x
	1/93	pp.14--16; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.108--111
	predecessor to @smooth@ command added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 sg16!sg16@
.t Generalized linear models
.a J. Hilbe
.k glm general-ized linear model-s stat-istics glmlogis _glmresd lmresd
.z
.x
	1/93	pp.20--28; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.149--159

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 sg15!sg15@
.c stb
.t Sample size determination for means and proportions
.a J. Hilbe
.k samp-les size mean-s propor-tions power sampsiz stat-istics
.o @sampsiz@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/93	pp.17--20; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.145--149
	predecessor to @sampsi@

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 sg1.4!sg1.4@
.c stb
.t Standard nonlinear curve fits
.a P. Royston
.k est-imation mult-iple stat-istics r-squared sq-uared r-2 2 est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl sq-uared dev-iations reg-ressions min-imums
.k nlexp2 nlexp2a nlexp3 nlfcns nlgom3 nlgom4 nllog3 nllog4
.o @nl@
.z
.x
	1/93	p.17; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.121
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-11 @net:stb 11 smv6!smv6@
.c stb
.t Identifying multivariate outliers
.a W. Gould & A. S. Hadi
.k multiv-ariate data outlier-s stat-istics hadimvo _crcichi _maked
.o @hadimvo@
.z
.x
	1/93	pp.28--32; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.163--168
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 crc23
.c stb
.t Minor bug fixes
.k box-cox rank-sums sum-s quantile-s norm-al plot-s t-test cox
.z
.x
	11/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.20
	all reported fixes incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 crc22
.c stb
.t Error fixed in rchart
.k rchart range chart-s
.z
.x
	11/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.20
	fix incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 crc21
.c stb
.t True Kaplan-Meier estimates for ltable
.k life tabl-es kaplan-meier meier stat-istics
.z
.x
	11/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.19
	additional option for @ltable@ incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 crc20
.c stb
.t Stata expression-processing bug
.k expr-essions
.z
.x
	11/92	p. 3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.19
	fix for problem occurring on DOS computers when expression
	has too many operators; incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 ip3
.c stb
.t Stata programming
.a W. Gould
.k prog-ramming prog-rams begin-ning
.z
.x
	11/92	pp.3--18; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.46--65		 (no commands)
	instruction on beginning to program in Stata

.e STB-10 os7
.c stb
.t Stata and windowed operating systems
.a W. Gould
.k win-dowed operating system-s command-s lang-uage interf-aces
.z
.x
	11/92	pp.18--20; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.76--78	 (no commands)
	discussion of how to combine a command language program,
	like Stata, with a point-and-click interface

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sbe9!sbe9@
.c stb
.t Brier score decomposition
.a W. H. Rogers
.k bina-ry brier scor-e decomp-osition dicho-tomous outcome-s model-s
.k goodness fit test-s test-ing yates sanders murphy stat-istics
.o @brier@
.z
.x
	11/92	pp.20--22; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.92--94
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sg14!sg14@
.c stb
.t Is a transformation of an independent variable necessary?
.a R. Goldstein
.k transfo-rmations var-iables indep-endent box-tidwell tidwell stat-istics
.o @tidwell@ if installed
.x
	11/92	p.26; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.144--145
	perform approximation to Box-Tidwell technique to help
	determine if rhs variable should be transformed and
	provides an estimate of what the transform should be

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sg13!sg13@
.c stb
.t Is a transformation of the dependent variable necessary?
.a R. Goldstein
.k transfo-rmations var-iables depen-dent atkinson-s scor-e test-s test-ing
.k atkinson stat-istics
.o @atkinson@ if installed
.x
	11/92	pp.23--26; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.141--144
	perform Atkinson's score test to determine if transformation
	of dependent variable is necessary

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sg12!sg12@
.c stb
.t Extended tabulate utilities
.a D. H. Judson
.k cross-tabulations tab-s tab-ulate tab-ulations etab xtab stat-istics
.o @etab@, @xtab@ if installed
.x
	11/92	pp.22--23; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.140--141
	perform all possible tabulations between variables in one
	varlist against each of the variables in a second varlist

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sg9.1!sg9.1@
.c stb
.t Additional statistics to similari output
.a J. Hilbe
.k odds ratio-s relativ-e risk-s
.k similar-ity coef-ficients bina-ry data dicho-tomous stat-istics
.o @similari@ if installed
.x
	11/92	p.22; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.132
	add odds ratio and relative risk statistics to ^similari^ output

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 sqv6!sqv6@
.c stb
.t Smoothed partial residual plots for logistic regression
.a J. Hilbe
.k partial resid-uals plot-s logis-tic reg-ressions lpartr
.o @lpartr@ if installed
.x
	11/92	p.27; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.174--175

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 srd15!srd15@
.c stb
.t Restricted cubic spline functions
.a R. Goldstein
.k cub-ic spline-s func-tions stat-istics centile
.o @spline@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/92	pp.29--32; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.185--189
	see @mkspline@ command incorporated into Stata 10

.e STB-10 @net:stb 10 srd14!srd14@
.c stb
.t Cook-Weisberg test of heteroscedasticity
.a R. Goldstein
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity test-s test-ing
.k cook-weisberg weisberg cwhetero stat-istics
.o @cwhetero@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/92	pp.27--28; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.183--184
	predecessor to @hettest@ added to Stata 4.0

.e STB-9 crc19
.c stb
.t Nonlinear regression command
.k est-imation mult-iple est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl sq-uared reg-ressions stat-istics
.o @nl@
.z
.x
	9/92	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.19
	announcement that Royston's @nl@ command is now officially
	part of Stata

.e STB-9 crc18
.c stb
.t Important difference between regular and Intercooled Stata
.k interco-oled
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.18
	See ^[R] limits^.

.e STB-9 crc17
.c stb
.t Bug fixes
.k epi-demiological epi-demiology tabl-es kruskal-wallis wallis test-s test-ing
.k quantile-s reg-ressions stat-istics
.z
.x
	9/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.17
	fixed in Stata 3.1

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 dm10!dm10@
.c stb
.t Infiling data: Automatic dictionary creation
.a W. Gould
.k data-sets set-s ascii read enter load dict-ionary format-ted text
.k manage-ment chkifdbl creatdct getline gnlutils utils pass1 pass2 pass3
.k input-ting input-ing
.x
	9/92	pp.4--8; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.28--34
	examine formatted, ASCII data and automatically create a ^.dct^
	dictionary for reading it; variables are assigned appropriate
	storage types

.e STB-9 gr11
.c stb
.t Using CorelDraw as a Stata graphics editor
.a M. Jacobs
.k corel-draw graph-s graph-ics edit-or
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.43--44		 (no commands)

.e STB-9 ip2
.c stb
.t A keyboard shortcut
.a P. A. Lachenbruch
.k nonmiss-ing value-s miss-ing
.x
	9/92	p.9; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.46			 (no commands)
	keyboard shortcut to indicate nonmissing values

.e STB-9 sbe8
.c stb
.t Left-censored survival data
.a W. H. Rogers
.k left censor-ed surviv-al data censor-ing exp-onential reg-ressions cox
.k stat-istics
.x
	9/92	pp.12--14; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.89--91	 (no commands)
	discussion of two alternative techniques for handling
	left-censored survival data

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sbe7!sbe7@
.c stb
.t Hyperbolic regression analysis in biomedical applications
.a P. Geiger
.k hyperb-olic reg-ressions stat-istics hbolic
.o @hbolic@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.9--12; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.85--89

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sg11.1!sg11.1@
.c stb
.t Bootstrapped quantile regression
.a W. Gould
.k quantile-s reg-ressions std stand-ard err-ors resid-uals stat-istics
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity boot-strapped qreg bsqreg _bsqreg
.o @qreg@
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.19--21; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.137--139
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-9 sg11
.c stb
.t Quantile regression standard errors
.a W. H. Rogers
.k quantile-s reg-ressions std stand-ard err-ors resid-uals
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity stat-istics
.x
	9/92	pp.16--19; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.133--137	 (no commands)
	argument presented that the formula-based Koenker and
	Bassett standard errors used by ^qreg^ are not satisfactory
	when heteroscedasticity of the residuals is suspected and
	suggests the substitution of bootstrap standard errors

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sg10!sg10@
.c stb
.t Confidence limits in bivariate linear regression
.a P. Geiger
.k calibra-tion meth-od confx stat-istics
.o @confx@ if installed
.x
	9/92	p.16; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.132

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sg9!sg9@
.c stb
.t Similarity coefficients for 2 X 2 binary data
.a J. Hilbe
.k similar-ity coef-ficients bina-ry data dicho-tomous stat-istics
.o @similari@ if installed
.x
	9/92	pp.14--15; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.130--131
	duplicates statistics from SPSS proximity command

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sg8.1!sg8.1@
.c stb
.t Huber exponential regression
.a W. H. Rogers
.k huber exp-onential reg-ressions prob-ability weight-ing weight-s
.k clus-tering surviv-al cox weight-ed hreg hereg
.o @hreg@
.z
.x
	9/92	p.14; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.130
	^hereg^ incorporated into Stata 3.1 has been subsequently
	replaced by ^robust^ option introduced in Stata 5.0; see
	help @streg@

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 snp4!snp4@
.c stb
.t Nonparametric test for trend across ordered groups
.a K. A. Stepniewska & D. G. Altman
.k test-s test-ing trend nonpar-ametric non param-etric stat-istics nptrend
.o @nptrend@
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.21--22; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.169
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-9 sqv5
.c stb
.t Univariate log-likelihood tests for model identification
.a J. Hilbe
.k like-lihood ratio-s test-s test-ing logis-tic reg-ressions model-s
.k unilogit stat-istics
.o @unilogit@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/92	pp.22--23; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.172--173
	a specific likelihood-ratio test; predates more general @lrtest@

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sqv4.1!sqv4.1@
.c stb
.t Correction to ldev command output
.a J. Hilbe
.k logis-tic reg-ressions logit ldev stat-istics
.o @ldev@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/92	p.22; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.172
	predates Stata's @logistic@ command

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 sqv3.1!sqv3.1@
.c stb
.t Graphical display of Atkinson's R values
.a M. Jacobs
.k graph-s atkinson-s r-values value-s graph-ics atrgph
.o @atrgph@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/92	p.22; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.170--171
	predates Stata's @logistic@ command

.e STB-9 @net:stb 9 srd13!srd13@
.c stb
.t Maximum R-squared and pure error lack-of-fit test
.a R. Goldstein
.k goodness fit ols ordinary least sq-uares reg-ressions
.k repli-cates covariate-s patt-erns maxr2 stat-istics
.o @maxr2@ if installed
.x
	9/92	pp.24--28; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.178--183
	used after ^fit^ to assess goodness of fit when the dataset
	contains replicates

.e STB-8 crc16
.c stb
.t Encapsulated PostScript driver
.k encap-sulated posts-cript driver-s
.z
.x
	7/92	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.17
	driver included in Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 crc15
.c stb
.t Parse bug
.k pars-e prog-ramming prog-rams
.z
.x
	7/92	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.16
	fix included in Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 crc14
.c stb
.t Pairwise correlation coefficients
.k pair-wise corr-elations coef-ficients pcorr stat-istics
.o @pwcorr@
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.14--16
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 crc13
.c stb
.t Short describes, finding variables, and codebooks
.k centile-s display content-s data-sets set-s describe percent-iles ds
.k docu-ment label-s determ-ine count-s miss-ing value-s quartile-s lookfor
.k quantile-s range stor-age type-s stat-istics summ-ary uniq-ue list
.k var-iables descrip-tion code-s book-s unit-s num-bers find-ing codebook
.k total-s
.o @ds@, @lookfor@, @codebook@
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.3--5; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.11--14
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 os6!os6@
.c stb
.t Importing and exporting text files with Stata
.a P. Goldberg
.k ascii import-ing expor-ting text file-s data-sets set-s sep2stat stat2sep
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.74--76
	executable C programs for the Unix environment; assists in
 	reading comma-separated files containing variable names

.e STB-8 os5
.c stb
.t Running Stata under OS/2 2.0
.a J. Hilbe
.k os-2
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.73--74		 (no commands)
	see os5.1

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 sed7.1!sed7.1@
.c stb
.t Resistant nonlinear smoothing using Stata
.a W. Gould
.k graph-s smooth-ing smooth-ers resist-ant robust hanning nonlin-ear nlsm-_mu
.k noise med-ians two-way way scat-terplots plot-s graph-ics stat-istics
.k nlsm_e-pu nlsm_h nlsm_rpt nlsm_s
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.9--12; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.104--107
	predecessor to @smooth@ command added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 sg8
.c stb
.t Probability weighting
.a W. H. Rogers
.k prob-ability weight-ing weight-s clus-tered samp-ling clus-tering
.k huber survey-s weight-ed stat-istics
.x
	7/92	pp.15--17; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.126--129	 (no commands)
	discussion of the appropriate method for handling
	probability-weighted samples

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 sg7!sg7@
.c stb
.t Centile estimation command
.a P. Royston
.k conf-idence interv-als med-ians percent-iles centile-s data quantile-s
.k distrib-utions display summ-ary summ-arize disper-sion stat-istics
.k quartile-s descrip-tive
.o @centile@
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.12--15; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.122--125
	incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 sg1.3!sg1.3@
.c stb
.t Nonlinear regression command, bug fix
.a P. Royston
.k est-imation mult-iple stat-istics r-squared sq-uared r-2 2 est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl-init sq-uared dev-iations reg-ressions
.k nlpred _nlout min-imums
.z
.x
	7/92	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.120
	predecessor to @nl@ added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 smv5.1!smv5.1@
.c stb
.t Log-linear analysis of cross classifications, update
.a D. H. Judson
.k log-linear est-imation cross classif-ied classif-ications count-s data
.k est-imates linear stat-istics stats total-s
.o @loglin@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/92	p.18; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.162--163
	improvements to loglin command

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 sqv4!sqv4@
.t The deviance goodness-of-fit statistic after logistic
.a J. Hilbe
.k logis-tic reg-ressions logit dev-iance goodness fit ldev stat-istics
.o @ldev@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/92	pp.18--19; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.171--172
	predates Stata's @logistic@ command

.e STB-8 @net:stb 8 ssi3!ssi3@
.c stb
.t Continuous dynamic system modeling & simulation with Stata
.a F. Danuso
.o @simula@ if installed
.k simul-ations model-ing dyna-mic system stat-istics
.x
	7/92	pp.19--32; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.190--208
	overview on system modeling and simulation; command to perform
	continuous dynamic system modeling & simulation

.e STB-7 crc12.1
.c stb
.t Oops!., again
.k conf-idence interv-als stat-istics
.z
.x
	5/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.11
	fix incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 dm9!dm9@
.c stb
.t An ANOVA blocking utility
.a P. A. Lachenbruch
.o @gl@ if installed
.k anova anal-ysis variance-s gl data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	5/92	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.28
	generate a variable with levels 1 through A in blocks of B;
	corresponds to %gl(a,b) in GLIM

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 dm8!dm8@
.c stb
.t Command to unblock data sets
.a J. Hilbe
.o @unblock@ if installed
.k block-ed unblock-ed data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	5/92	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.27--28
	convert blocked data to unblocked data

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 dm7!dm7@
.c stb
.t Utility to reverse variable coding
.a M. Jacobs
.o @omscore@ if installed
.k cod-ing reverse var-iables code-s omscore data-sets set-s manage-ment
.x
	5/92	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.27

.e STB-7 gr10.1
.c stb
.t Printing and creating WordPerfect graph files, update
.a M. Jacobs
.k word-perfect perfect graph-s file-s print-ing graph-ics
.z
.x
	5/92	p.5; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.43			 (no commands)

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 os4!os4@
.c stb
.t Stata icon for Microsoft Windows 3.1
.a J. Hilbe
.k win-dows
.z
.x
	5/92	p.5; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.73
	Windows icon for users wanting to run Stata 3.0 under
	Windows 3.1 operating system

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sbe6!sbe6@
.c stb
.t 3 X 3 matched case-control tests
.a J. Hilbe
.k epi-demiology match-ed case-control control test-s test-ing stewart-maxwell
.k fleiss-everitt everitt extend-ed mcnemar mcc3i stat-istics
.o @mcc3i@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.83--85
	immediate command to calculate chi-squared statistics and
	significance tests for 3 X 3 matched case-control tables

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sbe5!sbe5@
.c stb
.t Calculating person-years and incidence rates
.a J. Hilbe
.k person-years year-s incid-ence rate-s epi-demiology poisson pyears stat-istics
.o @pyears@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.5--7; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.81--83
	@stptime@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sed7!sed7@
.c stb
.t Resistant smoothing using Stata
.a I. Salgado-Ugarte & J. Curts-Garcia
.k graph-s smooth-ing smooth-ers resist-ant robust nonlin-ear sm4253eh
.k noise med-ians two-way way scat-terplots plot-s graph-ics stat-istics
.o @sm4253eh@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.8--11; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.99--103
	predecessor to @smooth@ command added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sg1.2!sg1.2@
.c stb
.t Nonlinear regression command
.a P. Royston
.k est-imation mult-iple stat-istics r-squared sq-uared r-2 2 est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl sq-uared dev-iations reg-ressions min-imums
.k nlinit nlpred _nlout
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.11--18; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.112--120
	predecessor to @nl@ added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sqv3!sqv3@
.c stb
.t Wald and Atkinson's R extensions to logistic
.a J. Hilbe
.k wald atkinson-sr logis-tic reg-ressions lwald stat-istics
.o @lwald@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	p.18; STB Reprints Vol 2, p.170
	predates Stata's @logistic@ command

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 sts2!sts2@
.c stb
.t Using Stata for time series analysis
.a S. Becketti
.k time series ts period ac coint stat-istics dickey dif dropoper findlag
.k growth lag lead pac _ts_flag _ts_peri
.o @ts@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.18--26; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.209--218
	information in this insert is continually updated; see sts7.*

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 tt5!tt5@
.c stb
.t Simple chemical equilibrium
.a P. Geiger
.k chem-ical equilib-rium
.x
	5/92	pp.28--29; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.221--223
	calculates equilibrium concentrations of reactants

.e STB-7 @net:stb 7 tt4!tt4@
.c stb
.t Teaching ecology with Stata
.a J. Taylor
.k teach-ing ecology fitline domdiver esarea fitpower
.o @fitline@, @fitpower@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/92	pp.26--28; STB Reprints Vol 2, pp.219--221
	suggests ado-files that are helpful in teaching ecology

.e STB-6 crc12
.c stb
.t Oops!
.k conf-idence interv-als stat-istics
.z
.x
	3/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.20
	fix incorporated into Stata 3.1

.e STB-6 dm2.2
.c stb
.t Stat/Transfer 2.0 review update
.a J. Hilbe
.k transfe-r data-sets read load set-s import lotus dbase excel writ-e
.k paradox quattro-pro pro gauss sas transport spss systat expor-t
.k sav-e symphony clipper foxbase statt-ransfer sav-ing manage-ment
.z
.x
	3/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.27--28		 (no commands)
	newer version of Stat/Transfer is now available

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 sed6!sed6@
.c stb
.t Quartiles, outliers, and normality:  Monte Carlo results
.a L. C. Hamilton
.k quartile-s outlier-s norm-ality monte carlo box plot-s severe stat-istics
.x
	3/92	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.92--95
	explore different definitions of severe outliers using Monte
	Carlo techniques

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 smv5!smv5@
.c stb
.t Log-linear analysis of cross classifications
.a D. H. Judson
.k log-linear est-imation cross classif-ied classif-ications count-s data
.k est-imates linear stat-istics poilog stats total-s
.o @loglin@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/92	pp.7--17; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.139--152
	estimate a Poisson maximum-likelihood log-linear model on up
	to four-way tables of counts

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 smv4!smv4@
.c stb
.t Oneway multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
.a J. Hilbe
.k multiv-ariate anal-ysis variance-s manova stat-istics
.o @manova@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/92	pp.5--7; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.138--139
	incorporated into Stata 8; see help @manova@

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 sqv2!sqv2@
.c stb
.t Assessing the goodness of fit of logit models with graphs
.a D. H. Judson
.k goodness fit logit logis-tic reg-ressions graph-s model-s graph-ics
.x
	3/92	pp.17--19; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.165--168

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 srd12!srd12@
.c stb
.t Some model selection statistics
.a R. Goldstein
.k compar-e non-nested nest-ed model-s amemiya hocking akaike schwarz schwartz
.k selec-tion overfit rhs num-bers right-hand hand side var-iables amemiya
.k stat-istics
.o @amemiya@ if installed
.z
.x
	3/92	pp.22--26; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.194--199
	produce statistics to help choose between models and to help
	decide whether a model is guilty of overfit (too many rhs
	variables)

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 srd11!srd11@
.c stb
.t Generating ordered "cascading" dummy variables
.a R. Goldstein
.k dum-my dum-mies var-iables order-ed gen-erate creat-e cascad-ing
.k cat-egorical cascade data-sets set-s manage-ment
.o @cascade@ if installed
.x
	3/92	pp.19--22; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.190--194
	add a set of new dummy variables that are cascading; that is,
	0/1 variables are created where a 1 is given if the case has
	the value <= value of lowest category

.e STB-6 @net:stb 6 tt3!tt3@
.c stb
.t Teaching chemistry: Understanding buffer solutions
.a P. Geiger
.k teach-ing chem-istry biochem-istry buffer solutions
.x
	3/92	pp.26--28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.226--228
	discussion of using Stata to teach students to manipulate
	buffer calculations

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 dm6!dm6@
.c stb
.t A utility to document beginning and ending variable dates
.a S. Becketti
.o @finddate@ if installed
.k date-s var-iables list first last begin-ning end-ing data-sets set-s
.k docu-ment finddate manage-ment
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.31
	predates Stata's date format; see help @dates@

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 dm5!dm5@
.c stb
.t Creating a grouping variable for data sets
.a M. Jacobs
.o @bv@, @bvs@ if installed
.k group-ing var-iables creat-e data-sets set-s bv-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	1/92	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.30

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 dm3.1!dm3.1@
.c stb
.t Typesetting correction to automatic command logging
.k print-ing edit output-ting output-ing result-s preserve log-s record-s
.k sess-ions data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k sav-e batch job-s file-s copy command-s autom-atically sav-ing
.z
.x
	1/92	p.2; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.29--30
	@cmdlog@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 gr10!gr10@
.c stb
.t Printing graphs and creating WordPerfect graph files
.a T. R. Saving and J. Montgomery
.k word-perfect perfect graph-s file-s print-ing graph-ics gphprt gphwp
.o @gphprt@, @gphwp@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.6--7; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.49--50

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 gr9!gr9@
.c stb
.t Partial residual graphs for linear regression
.a J. Hilbe
.k partial resid-uals graph-s linear reg-ressions graph-ics partres
.o @partres@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.47--49
	predates ^fit^, ^cprplot^

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 ip1!ip1@
.c stb
.t Customizing a Stata menu system
.a M. Jacobs
.k t_menu
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.52--53
	program shell that allows the user to create a customized
	Stata menu system

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 sbe4!sbe4@
.c stb
.t Further aspects of RIA analysis
.a P. Geiger
.k ria radioi-mmunoassay nonlin
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.7--10; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.73--76
	predates @nl@

.e STB-5 sg6
.c stb
.t Regression switching models
.a D. Benjamin
.k reg-ressions model-s est-imation prog-rams prog-ramming est-imates
.x
	1/92	pp.12--13; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.119--121	 (no commands)
	estimation of a regression model in which the coefficients
	switch when one of the independent variables exceeds a
	threshold

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 sg5!sg5@
.c stb
.t Correlation coefficients with significance levels
.a S. Becketti
.k corr-elations coef-ficients pearson-s prod-uct mom-ent spearman-s rank-s
.k kendall-s tau beta corrprob stat-istics
.o @corrprob@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	p.11; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.118--119
	predates @spearman@ and @ktau@

.e STB-5 sg3.7
.c stb
.t Final summary of tests of normality
.a W. Gould
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses distrib-utions pop-ulations
.k test-s test-ing d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared sym-metry asym-metry
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics
.o @sktest@, @swilk@
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.10--11; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.114--115
	@sktest@, @swilk@, and @sfrancia@ tests are now available in Stata

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 smv3!smv3@
.c stb
.t Regression based dichotomous discriminant analysis
.a J. Hilbe
.k dicho-tomous discrim-inant stat-istics
.o @discrim@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.13--17; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.131--137
	perform discriminant analysis on 0/1 variable
	see @discrim@ command incorporated into Stata 10

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 smv1.1!smv1.1@
.c stb
.t Minor change to single factor repeated measures ANOVA
.a J. Hilbe
.k anova anal-ysis variance-s ranova stat-istics
.o @ranova@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	p.13; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.123
	predates ^anova^'s ^repeated()^ option

.e STB-5 sqv1.4
.c stb
.t Typographical correction to enhanced logistic regression
.a J. Hilbe
.k logis-tic reg-ressions logit stat-istics
.z
.x
	1/92	p.17; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.165
	predates @logistic@ command

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 srd10!srd10@
.c stb
.t Maximum-likelihood est. for Box-Cox power transformation
.a P. Royston
.k est-imation ml-e max-imum like-lihood reg-ressions cox box-cox expr-essions
.k norm-ality asym-metry skew-ness hyp-othesis hyp-otheses stat-istics
.k power transfo-rmations modulus reexp-ressions sym-metric sym-metry
.k variance-s stabil-ization stabil-isation model-s est-imates boxcoxr
.o @boxcox@
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.25--26; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.188--190
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 srd9!srd9@
.c stb
.t Box-Cox statistics for help in choosing transformations
.a R. Goldstein
.k cox box-cox power transfo-rmations model-s norm-ality stat-istics
.k re-expressions expr-essions boxcoxg
.o @boxcoxg@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.22--25; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.184--188
	predates @boxcox@

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 srd8!srd8@
.c stb
.t Dummy variables in regressions with log dependent variable
.a R. Goldstein
.k dum-my var-iables dum-mies reg-ressions transfo-rmations log-arithmic
.k cat-egorical logdummy stat-istics
.o @logdummy@ if installed
.x
	1/92	pp.21--22; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.183--184
	interpretation of dummy variables when dependent variable is
	logged; popularly misconceived as the percentage change between
	the two groups

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 srd7!srd7@
.c stb
.t Adjusted summary statistics for logarithmic regression
.a R. Goldstein
.k reg-ressions log-arithmic summ-ary functional form choice choose
.k model-ing logsumm stat-istics boxcoxg logsumm
.o @logsumm@ if installed
.x
	1/92	pp.17--21; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.178--183
	program to assist in choosing among linear, semi-log, quadratic,
	or log functional form

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 ssa2!ssa2@
.c stb
.t Tabulating survival statistics
.a W. L. J. van Putten
.k surviv-al tab-ulations tab-ulate survtab stat-istics _crcsrv2
.o @survtab@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.26--27; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.202--203
	predates @ltable@ command

.e STB-5 @net:stb 5 sts1!sts1@
.c stb
.t Autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation graphs
.a S. Becketti
.k time series graph-s autocor-relations partial graph-ics ac pac stat-istics
.k lag
.o @ac@, @pac@ if installed
.z
.x
	1/92	pp.27--28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.221--223
	@ac@ and @pac@ added to Stata 6

.e STB-4 crc11
.c stb
.t Drawing random samples
.k enter data-sets set-s manage-ment rand-om samp-les samp-ling draw
.k input-ting input-ing load propor-tional read strat-ified
.z
.o @sample@
.x
	11/91	pp.3--4; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.19--20
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 dm4!dm4@
.c stb
.t A duplicate value identification program
.a M. Jacobs
.o @chkdup@ if installed
.k find dup-licates value-s uniq-ue var-iables chkdup data-sets set-s 
.k manage-ment
.z
.x
	11/91	p.5; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.30
	incorporated into Stata; see @duplicates@

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 dm3!dm3@
.c stb
.t Automatic command logging for Stata
.a D. H. Judson
.k print-ing edit output-ting output-ing result-s preserve log-s record-s
.k sess-ions data-sets set-s manage-ment
.k sav-e batch job-s file-s copy command-s autom-atically sav-ing
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.4--5; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.28--29
	@cmdlog@ available in Stata 7.0

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 gr8!gr8@
.c stb
.t Printing a series of Stata graphs
.a J. A. Anderson
.k print-ing graph-s win-dows graph-ics
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.46--47
	instructions on printing graphs using a BAT file and/or Windows 3.0

.e STB-4 os3.2
.c stb
.t Follow-up question to os3
.a A. Katz
.k interco-oled ic win-dows dos
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.60		 (no commands)
	comments on using Intercooled Stata 3.0 with Windows 3.0

.e STB-4 os3.1
.c stb
.t Comment on os3: using Intercooled Stata within DOS 5.0
.a M. Jacobs
.k interco-oled ic win-dows dos
.z
.x
	11/91	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.59--60		 (no commands)
	comments on using Intercooled Stata 3.0 with Windows 3.0

.e STB-4 os2.1
.c stb
.t Questions and answers about Stat/Transfer -- an addendum
.a J. T. Anagnoson
.k transfe-r data-sets read load set-s import lotus writ-e
.k sas transport sav-e dbms-copy statt-ransfer sav-ing
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.6--7; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.56--57		 (no commands)
	Newer version of Stat/Transfer is now available

.e STB-4 sg3.6
.c stb
.t Response to sg3.3: comment on tests of normality
.a P. Royston
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses distrib-utions pop-ulations swilk
.k test-s test-ing d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry
.o swilk
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.112--114	 (no commands)

.e STB-4 smv2
.c stb
.t Analyzing repeated measurements -- practical alternatives
.a W. H. Rogers
.k repeated meas-urements anova anal-ysis variance-s longi-tudinal panel-s
.x
	11/91	pp.10--16; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.123--131	 (no commands)
	alternative techniques to repeated measures anova for
	analyzing longitudinal data

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 smv1!smv1@
.c stb
.t Single-factor repeated measures ANOVA
.a J. Hilbe
.k anova anal-ysis variance-s ranova stat-istics
.o @ranova@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.9--10; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.122--123
	works for the simplest special case of the repeated measures
	design; predates ^anova^'s ^repeated()^ option

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 sqv1.3!sqv1.3@
.c stb
.t An enhanced logistic regression program
.a J. Hilbe
.k logis-tic reg-ressions logit extlogit logiodd2 stat-istics inflogit
.o @logiodd2@ if installed
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.16--18; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.163--165
	predates @logistic@ command

.e STB-4 @net:stb 4 ssi2!ssi2@
.c stb
.t Bootstrap programming
.a L. C. Hamilton
.k boot-strapped prog-ramming prog-rams data resamp-ling samp-ling
.k replacem-ent monte carlo simul-ations
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.18--27; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.208--220
	instructional discussion with examples of bootstrapping

.e STB-4 tt2
.c stb
.t Using "front ends" for Stata
.a M. Macy
.k teach-ing midas interf-aces
.z
.x
	11/91	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.225--226		 (no commands)
	discussion of MIDAS as a front end for Stata

.e STB-3 crc10
.c stb
.t Corrections and updates to roc and poisson commands
.k roc curve-s receiver operating charac-teristics poisson reg-ressions
.k stat-istics
.z
.x
	9/91	p.3; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.19
	changes incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-3 dm2.1
.c stb
.t Vendors' response to review
.a S. Dubnoff
.k transfe-r data-sets read load set-s import lotus dbase writ-e
.k gauss sas transport spss systat expor-t statt-ransfer
.k sav-e symphony clipper foxbase sav-ing manage-ment
.z
.x
	9/91	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.27			 (no commands)
	newer version of Stat/Transfer is now available

.e STB-3 dm2
.c stb
.t Data format conversion using dbms/copy and Stat/Transfer
.a J. Hilbe
.k transfe-r data-sets read load set-s import lotus dbase writ-e
.k gauss sas transport spss systat expor-t sav-ing manage-ment
.k sav-e symphony clipper foxbase dbms-copy statt-ransfer
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.3--6; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.21--26		 (no commands)
	review of dbms/copy version 2 and Stat/Transfer 1.4B;
	newer versions are available

.e STB-3 gr7
.c stb
.t Using Stata graphs in the Windows 3.0 environment
.a J. Hilbe
.k graph-s win-dows graph-ics
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.9--10; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.44--46		 (no commands)

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 gr6!gr6@
.c stb
.t Lowess smoothing
.a P. Royston
.k graph-s lowess smooth-ing loess local-ly weight-ed scat-terplots plot-s
.k reg-ressions noise two-way way graph-ics ksm _ksmwrk stat-istics
.o @ksm@
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.7--9; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.41--44
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-3 os3
.c stb
.t Using Intercooled Stata within DOS 5.0
.a J. Hilbe
.k interco-oled ic win-dows dos
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.11--12; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.58--59	 (no commands)

.e STB-3 os1.1
.c stb
.t Update on gphpen and color postscript use
.a R. A. Reese
.k color-s posts-cript graph-s graph-ics
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.10--11; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.55
	Color postscript support added in Stata 3.0

.e STB-3 qs4
.c stb
.t Request for additional smoothers
.a I. Salgado-Ugarte
.k smooth-ers smooth-ing
.z
.x
	11/91	p.12; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.61
	predates Stata's @smooth@ command

.e STB-4 tt1
.c stb
.t Teaching beginning students with Stata
.a J. T. Anagnoson
.k teach-ing
.z
.x
	11/91	pp.27--28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.224--225	 (no commands)
	suggestion how to insulate beginning students from Stata;
	discussion of whether this is desirable

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sbe3!sbe3@
.c stb
.t Biomedical analysis: Radioimmunoassay calculations
.k ria radioi-mmunoassay
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.12--15; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.68--73

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sed5!sed5@
.c stb
.t Enhancement of the Stata collapse command
.a P. Banens
.k aggregate stat-istics mean-s med-ians stand-ard dev-iations std sum-s
.k nonmiss-ing obs-ervations max-imums max-ima min-imums min-ima percent-iles
.k interquart-ile range set-s data-sets ave-rages centile-s creat-e make iqr
.k count-s quantile-s non miss-ing freq-uencies freq-uency quartile-s
.k func-tions contain-ing variance-s stats total-s
.o @stats@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.18--19; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.90--92
	predates Stata 3.0's revised @collapse@ command

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sed4!sed4@
.c stb
.t Resistant normality check and outlier identification
.a L. C. Hamilton
.k norm-ality outlier-s skew-ness box-plots plot-s severe sym-metry iqr
.k asym-metry trim-med mean-s psd pseudo std stand-ard dev-iations fence-s
.k stat-istics
.o @iqr@ if installed
.x
	9/91	pp.15--18; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.86--90
	program displays mean, median, 10% trimmed mean, standard
	deviation, PSD, IQR, inner and outer fences, and the number
	and percentage of mild and severe outliers

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sg4!sg4@
.c stb
.t Confidence intervals for t-test
.a R. Goldstein
.k conf-idence interv-als tci invt stat-istics
.o @tci@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.25--26; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.116--118
	produces confidence intervals and graphs of the intervals
	for t tests

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sg3.5!sg3.5@
.c stb
.t Comment on sg3.4 and an improved D'Agostino test
.a P. Royston
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses distrib-utions pop-ulations
.k test-s test-ing d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared sktestdc
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry
.o @sktestdc@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.23--24; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.110--112

.e STB-3 sg3.4
.c stb
.t Summary of tests of normality
.a W. Gould and W. H. Rogers
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses bera-jarque jarque distrib-utions pop-ulations
.k test-s test-ing d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry
.z
.x
	9/91	pp.20--23; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.106--110	 (no commands)

.e STB-3 sg3.3
.c stb
.t Comment on tests of normality
.a R. B. D'Agostino, A. J. Belanger, R. B. D'Agostino Jr.
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses distrib-utions pop-ulations
.k test-s test-ing d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry
.z
.x
	9/91	p.20; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.105--106		 (no commands)

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sg3.2!sg3.2@
.c stb
.t Shapiro-Wilk and Shapiro-Francia tests
.a P. Royston
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia swilk sfrancia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses distrib-utions pop-ulations test-s test-ing
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry
.o @swilk@
.z
.x
	9/91	p.19; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.105
	@swilk@ has been incorporated into Stata

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sg1.1!sg1.1@
.c stb
.t Correction to nonlinear regression program
.a J. Hilbe
.k nonlin-ear reg-ressions nl stat-istics
.o @nonlin@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/91	p.19; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.99
	predates @nl@

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 snp3!snp3@
.c stb
.t Phi coefficient (fourfold correlation)
.a R. Goldstein
.k phi coef-ficients corr-elations cohen-s effect-s size w
.k nonpar-ametric non param-etric stat-istics
.o @phi@ if installed
.x
	9/91	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.158--159
	calculate phi for a 2 X 2 table along with the chi-squared
	statistic

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 snp2!snp2@
.c stb
.t Friedman's ANOVA & Kendall's coefficient of concordance
.a R. Goldstein
.k friedman anova test-s test-ing anal-ysis variance-s
.k kendall-s coef-ficients concordance agree-ment rank-ings
.k nonpar-ametric non param-etric stat-istics genvsum
.o @friedman@ if installed
.x
	9/91	pp.26--27; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.157--158

.e STB-3 @net:stb 3 sqv1.2!sqv1.2@
.c stb
.t Logit regression diagnostic - Cook's distance
.a J. Hilbe
.k logit logis-tic reg-ressions cook-sd d distance extlogit logiodd2 stat-istics
.o @extlogit@, @logiodd2@ if installed
.z
.x
	9/91	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.162
	predates @logistic@ command

.e STB-2 crc9
.c stb
.t Replacing coded missing values
.k miss-ing value-s data-sets set-s change encode decode code-s
.k num-bers mvencode
.z
.o @mvencode@
.x
	7/91	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.18--19
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-2 crc8
.c stb
.t Actuarial or life-table analysis of time-to-event data
.k stat-istics haz-ards model-s greenwood conf-idence interv-als
.k tabl-es actuar-ial fail-ure surviv-al anal-ysis life data
.k censor-ing censor-ed time kaplan-meier meier ltable
.z
.o @ltable@
.x
	7/91	pp.2--4; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.16--18
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-2 crc7
.c stb
.t Corrections and changes in ado-files
.k date-s func-tions surviv-al
.z
.x
	7/91	p.2; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.16
	minor changes incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 dm1!dm1@
.c stb
.t Date calculator
.a M. Ureta
.o @dtadd@, @dtdiff@ if installed
.k date-s calcul-ator calcul-ate day-s num-bers between dtadd dtdiff
.k data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.x
	7/91	p.4; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.21
	predates Stata's date functions; see help @dates@

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 gr5!gr5@
.c stb
.t Triangle graphic for soil texture
.a F. Danuso
.k graph-s soil texture triangle graph-ics triatex
.o @triatex@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.9--10; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.40--41

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 gr4!gr4@
.c stb
.t 3-dimensional contour plots using Stata & Stage
.a G. van de Kuilen
.k graph-s contour plot-s 3-dimensional dimen-sional three-dimensional
.k wire frame graph-ics plot3d surface stage
.o @plot3d@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.39--40
	produce 3-dimensional contour plot; requires Stage

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 gr3!gr3@
.c stb
.t Crude 3-dimensional graphics
.a W. Gould
.k 3-dimensional dimen-sional three-dimensional graph-s graph-ics gr3-q
.k gr3save gr3set gr3use restore _3dax0 _3daxmin _3daxout _3daxtbl _3ddflts
.k _3dmkdta _3dmnmx _3dproj _3drproj _3drshow _3dshad _3dsvusr
.o @gr3@ if installed
.x
	7/91	pp.6--8; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.35--38

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 gr2!gr2@
.c stb
.t Importing Stata's graphs into MS-Word or WordPerfect
.a R. E. DeLeon
.k graph-s import-ing ms-word word-perfect perfect graph-ics
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.5--6; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.33--34

.e STB-2 os2
.c stb
.t Questions and answers about Stat/Transfer
.a S. Dubnoff
.k transfe-r data-sets read load set-s import writ-e quattro-pro
.k sas transport spss expor-t sav-e statt-ransfer sav-ing
.z
.x
	7/91	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.55--56		 (no commands)
	Newer version of Stat/Transfer is now available

.e STB-2 qs3
.c stb
.t Request for confidence intervals for proportions
.a I. Zavala
.k conf-idence interv-als propor-tions
.z
.x
	7/91	p.11; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.61
	predates @ci@

.e STB-2 qs2
.c stb
.t Why is the cubic spline so called?
.a J. T. Anagnoson
.k cub-ic spline-s
.x
	7/91	p.11; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.61			 (no commands)

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 sbe2!sbe2@
.c stb
.t Bailey-Makeham survival model
.a W. H. Rogers
.k bailey-makeham makeham model-s surviv-al stat-istics mpredict msurface
.o @bailey@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.11--14; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.64--68
	program to estimate the Bailey-Makeham survival model;
	can be run within Stata or stand-alone

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 sed3!sed3@
.c stb
.t Variable transformation and evaluation
.a T. Findley
.o @transfor@ if installed
.k univar-iate transfo-rmations ladder power-s stat-istics
.z
.x
	7/91	p.15; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.85--86
	predates @ladder@

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 sed2!sed2@
.c stb
.t Ladder-of-powers variable transformation
.a W. Gould & J. Hilbe
.k norm-ality transfo-rmations hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k graph-s ladder power-s hist-ograms reexp-ressions graph-ics
.k univar-iate distrib-utions display stat-istics gladder _gladder _ldrtest
.o @ladder@
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.14--15; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.84--85
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-2 sg3.1
.c
.t Tests for departure from normality
.a P. Royston
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses bera-jarque jarque sym-metry asym-metry
.k distrib-utions pop-ulations test-s d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared
.k anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness kurt-osis stat-istics test-ing
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.16--17; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.101--104	 (no commands)

.e STB-2 snp1
.c stb
.t Kolmogorov-Smirnov one and two variable tests
.a L. L. Giventer
.k nonpar-ametric non param-etric stat-istics kol-mogorov smir-nov test-s test-ing
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.17--21; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.153--157	 (no commands)

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 sqv1.1!sqv1.1@
.c stb
.t Correction to logit regression extensions
.a J. Hilbe
.k logit logis-tic reg-ressions stat-istics extlogit
.z
.x
	7/91	p.21; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.162
	predates @logistic@ command

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd6!srd6@
.c stb
.t A randomization test for the equality of two groups
.a R. Goldstein
.k equal-ity two group-s test-s test-ing randomi-zation urnmodel stat-istics
.o @urnmodel@ if installed
.x
	7/91	pp.27--28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.177--178
	approximation to a randomization test on the residuals of a
	standard linear regression to test the equality of two groups

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd5!srd5@
.c stb
.t Ramsey test for heteroscedasticity and omitted variables
.a R. Goldstein
.k hetero-skedasticity hetero-scedasticity test-s test-ing ramsey
.k specifica-tion err-ors omit-ted var-iables stat-istics
.o @ramsey@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/91	p.27; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.177
	predecessor to @ovtest@ added to Stata 4.0;

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd4!srd4@
.c stb
.t Test for general specification error in linear regression
.a R. Goldstein
.k specifica-tion err-ors reg-ressions linear omit-ted var-iables pswdiff
.k stat-istics
.o @pswdiff@ if installed
.x
	7/91	p.27; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.176--177

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd3!srd3@
.c stb
.t One-step Welsch bounded-influence estimator
.a R. Goldstein
.k welsch reg-ressions bound-ed influ-ence est-imators diagnos-tics stat-istics
.o @bound@ if installed
.z
.x
	7/91	p.26; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.176
	ols regression output presented, regression diagnostics
	computed, dffits is used to weight the data and estimate
	a one-step Welsch bounded-influence regression

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd2!srd2@
.c stb
.t Test for multivariate normality
.a R. Goldstein
.k norm-ality test-s test-ing multiv-ariate graph-s graph-ics multnorm stat-istics
.o @multnorm@ if installed
.x
	7/91	p.26; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.175
	graph for examining multivariate normality via diagnostics
	from a standard linear regression

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 srd1!srd1@
.c stb
.t How robust is robust regression?
.a L. C. Hamilton
.k est-imation robust reg-ressions lever-age linear est-imates
.k influ-ence tuning constant ave-rages mean-s resid-uals rreg
.k hat project-ion model-s sensitiv-ity outlier-s breg
.k huber weight-s biweight-s d cook-sd distance weight-ed stat-istics
.o @rreg@
.z
.x
	7/91	pp.21--26; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.169--175
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-2 @net:stb 2 ssa1.1!ssa1.1@
.c stb
.t Menu interface to life-table command
.a W. Gould
.k life tabl-es menu ltablem stat-istics clrscrn
.z
.o @ltablem@ if installed
.x
	7/91	p.28; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.202
	menu version of life-table command; predates @ltable@

.e STB-1 crc6
.c stb
.t Likelihood-ratio test command
.k test-s test-ing est-imation est-imates like-lihoodratio ratio-s like-lihood
.k coef-ficients model-s saturated constrain-ed hyp-othesis hyp-otheses
.k stat-istics lrtest
.z
.o @lrtest@
.x
	5/91	p.8; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.15--16
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 crc5
.c stb
.t Data set transposition command
.k reorganize data-sets set-s manage-ment interch-ange proc
.k var-iables obs-ervations and transp-ose xpose
.z
.o @xpose@
.x
	5/91	pp.7--8; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.15
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 crc4
.c stb
.t Data set rectangularization command
.k data-sets set-s fillin
.z
.o @fillin@
.x
	5/91	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.14
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 crc3
.c stb
.t Variable comparison command
.k compar-e two var-iables data-sets set-s manage-ment
.z
.o @compare@
.x
	5/91	p.7; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.14
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 crc2
.c stb
.t File comparison command
.k compar-e file-s two compar-isons data-sets set-s manage-ment cf
.z
.o @cf@
.x
	5/91	pp.6--7; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.13
	incorporated into Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 crc1
.c stb
.t CRC-provided support materials
.k support
.z
.x
	5/91	p.6; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.13			 (no commands)

.e STB-1 gr1
.c stb
.t Enhancing visual display using stem and leaf
.a P. Geiger
.k plot-s graph-ics
.k stem-andleaf and-leaf and leaf graph-s display-s chart-s hist-ograms
.z
.x
	5/91	pp.8--9; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.32
	predates expanded discussion in Stata 3.0 Reference Manual

.e STB-1 in1
.c stb
.t Installation of the STB disk
.z
.x
	5/91	p.9; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.51			 (no commands)

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 os1!os1@
.c stb
.t gphpen and color postscript
.a R. A. Reese
.k color-s posts-cript graph-s graph-ics
.z
.x
	5/91	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.54
	Color postscript support added in Stata 3.0

.e STB-1 qs1
.c stb
.t Request for Stata course outline
.a P. Geiger
.z
.x
	5/91	p.10; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.61			 (no commands)

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sbe1!sbe1@
.c stb
.t Poisson regression with rates
.a W. H. Rogers
.k poisson-2 reg-ressions rate-s stat-istics
.x
	5/91	pp.11--12; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.62--64
	discussion of why you should not do poisson regression with rates

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sed1!sed1@
.c stb
.t Stata and the four r's of EDA
.a R. E. DeLeon and J. T. Anagnoson
.k resist-ance resid-uals transfo-rmations re-expressions expr-essions
.x
	5/91	pp.13--17; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.77--83
	introduction to EDA concepts and illustration of Stata's power
	as an EDA tool

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sg3!sg3@
.c stb
.t Skewness and kurtosis tests of normality
.a W. Gould
.k norm-ality shapiro-wilk wilk shapiro-francia francia kurt-osis sktestd
.k hyp-othesis hyp-otheses bera-jarque jarque distrib-utions pop-ulations
.k test-s d'agostino-pearson pearson-s k-squared anal-ysis variance-s skew-ness
.k stat-istics sym-metry asym-metry amstat r_chi2 r_cnrml r_exp r_lnrml
.k r_ltnrml r_nrml r_t r_unfrm report simple sktest2 tester test-ing
.o @sktestd@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/91	pp.20--21; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.99--101
	predates @sktest@ which has been incorporated into Stata

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sg2!sg2@
.c stb
.t Exact and cumulative Poisson probabilities
.a J. Hilbe
.k poisson prob-abilities calcul-ator cpoisson stat-istics epoisson
.o @epoisson@, @cpoisson@ if installed
.x
	5/91	pp.19--20; STB Reprints Vol 1, p.99

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sg1!sg1@
.c stb
.t Nonlinear regression command
.a F. Danuso
.k est-imation mult-iple stat-istics r-squared sq-uared r-2 2 est-imates
.k least sq-uares nonlin-ear nl sq-uared dev-iations reg-ressions min-imums
.o @nonlin@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/91	pp.17--19; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.96--98
	predecessor to @nl@ added to Stata 3.1

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 sqv1!sqv1@
.c stb
.t Additional logistic regression extensions
.a J. Hilbe
.k logit logis-tic reg-ressions logiodd2 extlogit stat-istics
.o @logiodd2@, @extlogit@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/91	pp.21--23; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.160--162
	predates @logistic@ command

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 ssa1!ssa1@
.c stb
.t Actuarial or life-table analysis of time-to-event data
.a H. Krakauer & J. Stewart
.k haz-ards model-s greenwood conf-idence interv-als
.k tabl-es actuar-ial fail-ure surviv-al anal-ysis life data
.k censor-ing censor-ed time kaplan-meier meier stat-istics lftbl
.o @lftbl@ if installed
.z
.x
	5/91	pp.23--25; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.200--202
	predecessor to @ltable@

.e STB-1 @net:stb 1 ssi1!ssi1@
.t Monte Carlo simulation
.a L. C. Hamilton
.k monte carlo simul-ations rand-om var-iables gen-erate creat-e
.k rand-om num-bers unif-orm prog-ramming prog-rams
.x
	5/91	pp.25--28; STB Reprints Vol 1, pp.204--207
	illustrates some Stata commands useful for Monte Carlo
	simulation, including how-to guide for generating random
	numbers from various distributions
