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• Bookstore: A Gentle Introduction to Stata, 2nd Edition (Added 21 August 2008)
• Electronic version of the Stata News—3rd quarter now available (Updated 15 August 2008)
• Resource FAQ: History of Stata (Updated 14 August 2008)
• The Statalist FAQ (Updated 14 August 2008)
• 2008 UK Stata Users Group meeting: Program announced (Updated 12 August 2008)
• Bookstore: Sampling of Populations: Methods and Applications, 4th Edition (Added 01 August 2008)
• Statistics FAQ: Fitting a regression with interval constraints (Updated 31 July)
• Windows FAQ: How to determine that your OS is 64-bit compliant (Updated 31 July 2008)
• Bookstore: An Introduction to Stata for Health Researchers, 2nd Edition (Added 30 July 2008)
• Bookstore: Multivariable Model-Building: A pragmatic approach to regression analysis based on fractional polynomials for modelling continuous variables (Added 22 July 2008)
• Visit with Stata developers at JSM: August 3–6 (Added 16 July 2008)
• 2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group meeting: Program announced (Updated 09 July 2008)
• Windows FAQ: Running Stata for Windows in batch mode (Updated 02 July 2008)
• Bookstore: Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, 4th Edition (Added 27 June 2008)
• NetCourse schedule (Updated 23 June 2008)
• Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata: Reviews (Updated 18 June 2008)
• Electronic version of the Stata News—2nd quarter now available (Updated 06 June 2008)
• Bookstore: Stata par la pratique : statistiques, graphiques et éléments de programmation (Added 06 June 2008)
• Advanced Stata use course in London (Added 02 June 2008)
• Statistics FAQ: Repeated-measures ANOVA examples (Updated 29 May 2008)
• 5-day seminar: Event History and Survival Analysis Using Stata (Added 28 May 2008)
• Bookstore: A Visual Guide to Stata Graphics, 2nd Edition (Added 22 May 2008)
• German Stata Users Group meeting: Program announced (Updated 20 May 2008)
• Bookstore: An Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, 2nd Edition (Added 29 April 2008)
• Macintosh FAQ: Copying graphs and tables on Macintosh (Added 23 April 2008)
• Bookstore: Introductory Econometrics: A Modern Approach, 4th Edition (Added 17 April 2008)
• Bookstore: Modern Epidemiology, 3rd Edition (Added 08 April 2008)
• Electronic version of the Stata News—1st quarter now available (Updated 01 April 2008)
• Order individual Stata Journals (Updated 01 April 2008)
• Bookstore: Quantile Regression (Added 31 March 2008)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 26 March 2008)
• Stata Journal editorial board (Updated 21 March 2008)
• The Stata Journal FAQ (Updated 21 March 2008)
• Public training course in Washington DC (Added 20 March 2008)
• StataCorp announces on-site training (Added 20 March 2008)
• Bookstore: Statistics at Square Two, 2nd Edition (Added 19 March 2008)
• Stata Journal establishes moving wall (Added 12 March 2008)
• 2008 Polish Stata Users Group meeting: Program announced (Updated 06 March 2008)
• 2008 Italian Stata Users Group meeting: Announcement and call for papers (Added 05 March 2008)
• Statistics FAQ: Using nlcom with long expressions (Added 29 February 2008)
• Macintosh FAQ: How to avoid outputting the variable twice (Updated 26 February 2008)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 25 February 2008)
• Obtain answers to the exercises in Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, 2nd Edition (Added 22 February 2008)
• 2008 Summer North American Stata Users Group meeting: Announcement and call for presentations (Added 13 February 2008)
• The Stata Journal FAQ (Updated 05 February 2008)
• Order individual Stata Journals (Updated 05 February 2008)
• Bookstore: Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata, 2nd Edition (Added 30 January 2008)
• Windows FAQ: Difference in calculations for Stata versions and processors (Added 30 January 2008)
• Order individual Stata Journals (Updated 22 January 2007)
• NetCourse schedule (Updated 21 January 2008)
• Giftshop redesigned (Updated 18 January 2008)
• Bookstore: Medical Statistics from A to Z: A Guide for Clinicians and Medical Students, 2nd Edition (Added 17 January 2008)
• Bookstore: Principles of Econometrics, 3rd Edition (Added 16 January 2008)
• Statistics FAQ: Calculate percentiles with survey data (Added 10 January 2008)
• Bookstore: Using Stata for Principles of Econometrics, 3rd Edition (Added 09 January 2008)
• Bookstore: Analyzing Health Equity Using Household Survey Data (Added 09 January 2008)
• Employment Opportunities (Updated 27 December 2007)
• Capabilities: User-written commands (Added 17 December 2007)
• Unix FAQ: GUI performance on Windows X server (Added 13 December 2007)
• 2008 UK Stata Users Group meeting: First announcement and call for presentations (Added 12 December 2007)
• Check out What’s Hot on the SSC archive (Added 04 December 2007)
• Stata News Volume 22 Number 4 has been mailed (Updated 04 December 2007)
• USB flash drive added to Gift Shop (Updated 30 November 2007)
• Electronic version of the Stata News—4th quarter now available (Updated 29 November 2007)
• 2008 Polish Stata Users Group meeting: Announcement and call for papers (Added 15 November 2007)
• Unix FAQ: Running Stata in a clustered environment (Added 13 November 2007)
• Unix FAQ: Stata(GUI) crashes when executed remotely through X11 forwarding (Added 29 October 2007)
• Windows FAQ: Large datasets under Windows (Updated 23 October 2007)
• 2007 West Coast Stata Users Group meeting: Program updated. (Updated 23 October 2007)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 19 October 2007)
• NetCourse schedule (Updated 16 October 2007)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 24 September 2007)
• Unix FAQ: Error converting format to locale encoding: Conversion from character set ‘UTF-8’ to ‘646’ is not supported (Added 20 September 2007)
• Bookstore: Negative Binomial Regression (Added 13 September 2007)
• Order individual Stata Journals (Updated 12 September 2007)
• Macintosh FAQ: Stata crashes when opening Data Editor on Macintosh (Added 10 September 2007)
• NetCourse schedule (Updated 10 September 2007)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 06 September 2007)
• Data management FAQ: Apply labels after reshape (Added 30 August 2007)
• Data management FAQ: Configuring ODBC for Mac and Linux/Unix (Updated 30 August 2007)
• Unix FAQ: Output not aligned correctly on Stata for Unix (Added 30 August 2007)
• Data management FAQ: Handling date information when numbers are in a continuous space (Updated 30 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Baseline hazard and baseline hazard contribution (Updated 24 August 2007)
• Bookstore: Applied Econometrics for Health Economists, 2nd Edition (Added 15 August 2007)
• Employment Opportunities (Updated 13 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Comparing RE and PA models (Updated 09 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Methods for marginal effects (Updated 09 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Missing values reported by stsum (Updated 09 August 2007)
• Bookstore: Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences, 4th Edition (Added 08 August 2007)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 08 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Comparison of standard errors for robust, cluster, and standard estimators (Updated 08 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Chi-squared test for models estimated with robust standard errors (Updated 08 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Maximum likelihood estimation (Updated 08 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Citing references for Stata’s cluster-correlated robust variance estimates (Updated 07 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Chow and Wald tests (Updated 07 August 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Obtaining different results when executing xttobit on the same data after resorting (Updated 07 August 2007)
• 2007 Washingon, DC seminars on Stata: Announcement (Added 01 August 2007)
• 2007 North American Stata Users Group meeting: Program announced (Updated 27 July 2007)
• Stata 10 manual errata (Updated 27 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Two-stage least squares regression (Updated 27 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Instrumental variables for triangular/recursive systems with correlated disturbances (Updated 26 July 2007)
• Windows FAQ: Large datasets under Windows (Updated 26 July 2007)
• PanelWhiz supports more datasets (Updated 25 July 2007)
• Windows FAQ: Installing Stata/MP on a Windows network (Added 24 July 2007)
• Windows FAQ: Windows Vista error while creating stata.lic (Added 24 July 2007)
• Macintosh FAQ: How to avoid bringing Variables or Review window to front (Added 23 July 2007)
• Macintosh FAQ: How to avoid outputting the variable twice (Added 23 July 2007)
• Macintosh FAQ: How to avoid accidentally clearing multiple selections in the Variables or Review window (Added 23 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Obtaining marginal effects without standard errors (Updated 23 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Bootstrap with panel data (Updated 20 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: My raw count data contains evidence of both overdispersion and “excess zeros” (Updated 19 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Confidence intervals for predicted probabilities after probit (Updated 19 July 2007)
• Statistics FAQ: Prediction confidence intervals after logistic regression (Updated 19 July 2007)
• Unix FAQ: Error while loading shared libraries: libtiff.so.3 on Linux (Added 19 July 2007)
• Quotes about Stata Technical Services (Updated 18 July 2007)
• Bookstore: Event History Analysis with Stata (Added 12 July 2007)