st: New versions of -eclplot- and -smileplot- on SSC

[Roger Newson <roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk>]

Fellow Statalisters:

Thanks to Kit Baum, there are now new versions of the -eclplot- and 
-smileplot- packages. In Stata, type -ssc desc eclplot- and -ssc desc 
smileplot- to find out more.

The -eclplot- and -smileplot- packages create Stata 8 plots of confidence 
intervals and P-values, respectively. They are described as below on my 
website. The new versions fix a bug, common to both packages, which very 
occasionally caused them to crash while attempting to draw graphics, 
if  their graphics options or suboptions contained quoted strings. This bug 
has now been fixed in both packages.

Best wishes

Roger

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package eclplot from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata8
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TITLE
      eclplot: Horizontal and vertical confidence interval plots

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      eclplot creates a plot of estimates with lower and upper confidence 
limits
      on one axis against another numeric variable on the other axis. The 
estimates
      and lower and upper confidence limits are stored in three variables, 
in a
      data set with one observation per confidence interval to be plotted. 
Data
      sets with such variables may be created by the parmest package, or 
by statsby
      or postfile in official Stata. The user has a choice of plotting the
      confidence intervals horizontally or vertically, and a choice of 
range plot
      styles for the confidence intervals, and may also overlay the confidence
      interval plot with other plots using the plot option. In default, 
eclplot
      does not print a legend, and has "sensible" settings for axis titles and
      labels, but these defaults may be overridden by the user.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 23july2003
      Stata-Version: 8

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      eclplot.ado
      eclplot.hlp
      eclplot.dlg
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package smileplot from http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/stata8
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TITLE
      smileplot: Multiple test procedures and smile plots

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      This package contains the programs multproc, smileplot and smileplot7.
      multproc inputs a data set with 1 observation for each of a set of 
multiple
      significance tests and data on the P-values, and carries out a 
multiple test
      procedure chosen by the user to define a corrected overall critical 
P-value
      for accepting or rejecting the null hypotheses tested. These procedures
      may be one-step, step-up or step-down, and may control the 
familywise error
      rate (eg the Bonferroni, Sidak, Holm, Holland-Copenhaver, Hochberg 
and Rom
      procedures) or the false discovery rate (eg the Simes, Benjamini-Liu,
      Benjamini-Yekutieli and Benjamini-Krieger-Yekutieli procedures). 
smileplot,
      and its Stata 7 version smileplot7, work by calling multproc and then
      creating a smile plot, with data points corresponding to multiple 
estimated
      parameters, the P-values (on a reverse log scale) on the Y-axis, and the
      corresponding parameter estimates (or another variable) on the 
X-axis. There
      are Y-axis reference lines at the uncorrected and corrected overall 
critical
      P-values. The reference line at the corrected critical P-value, 
known as the
      parapet line, is interpreted informally as a boundary between data 
mining and
      data dredging. multproc, smileplot and smileplot7 are used on data 
sets with
      one observation per estimated parameter and data on estimates and their
      P-values, which may be created using parmby, parmest, statsby or 
postfile.

      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-Date: 23july2003
      Stata-Version: 8

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to install)
      multproc.ado
      multproc.hlp
      smileplot.ado
      smileplot.hlp
      smileplot7.ado
      smileplot7.hlp
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--
Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
Department of Public Health Sciences
King's College London
5th Floor, Capital House
42 Weston Street
London SE1 3QD
United Kingdom

Tel: 020 7848 6648 International +44 20 7848 6648
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  or 020 7848 6605 International +44 20 7848 6605
Email: roger.newson@kcl.ac.uk
Website: http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson

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