Re: st: RE: Re: New Version of Stata?

[Nick Winter <nw53@cornell.edu>]

> The other standard comment on this is to
> use the data on past behaviour, like a good
> statistician. Stata was first released
> in 1985 and so averages about 2.5 years between
> major releases (marked by integers). At the same time,
> knowing an average is, as we all know, insufficient
> for accurate prediction, especially as we are not looking
> at a stationary process here.
A while back (in the late days of version 7, I believe), I tried to model 
major release dates in terms of changes in the frequency of interim 
updates.  I got basically nowhere; but then again I'm not a time-series guy.

(And yes, this was when I was procrastinating on my dissertation...)

--Nick Winter



> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > [mailto:owner-statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu]On Behalf Of Dev Vencappa
> > Sent: 17 March 2004 10:43
> > To: statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu
> > Subject: st: Re: New Version of Stata?
> >
> >
> > Hello Statalist,
> >
> >  I am wondering if anyone of you could tell me whether
> > Statacorp is working on a new release of Stata (beyond 8.0)
> > please? If yes, then could you please tell me an approximate
> > date for the release if you know it?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Dev
> >
> >
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