Richard Williams <[email protected]> asks about accessing some of
the features of the StataQuest menus under Stata 8,
> I have been using Stata 7 with the Stataquest menu addons. The
> other day I used Stata 8 for the first time. The new menu structure
> is good, but seems to be missing some of the functionality that the
> Stataquest addons had.
>
> * The Ztesti and the Ztest2i functions (referred to on the menus as
> 1 sample normal test and 2 sample normal test) did not work on the
> Stata 8 machine I was using. These involve esoteric hypothesis
> testing cases where the population variance is somehow known.
> Granted, these are not real common situations, but I find them
> useful for teaching purposes. It looks like some other functions
> may be missing from the menus as well.
>
> * I liked the way the calculator menu was separate from the
> statistics menu in Stata 7 with Stataquest added on. Is there a way
> to rework the menus in v. 8? Stata isn't my primary statistical
> package but I find it extremely helpful as a statistical calculator,
> at least when I can find what I want.
> [...]
Stata 8's menus and dialogs are meant to provide a GUI to all of Stata's
official commands, whereas StataQuest was always more of a teaching tool.
Regardless, Richard can still use the StataQuest additions under Stata 8, but
the entire set of quest menus will be located under menu User|StataQuest and
this cannot be changed. They are installed exactly as the were before,
pick "SJ and User-written programs" from the "Help" menu
Click on "other locations"
Click on quest 7"
Then, click to install each of the 3 quest additions
As in Stata 7, type -quest on- to turn on the quest menus.
If Richard had previously installed the StataQuest additions under his Stata 7
and not uninstalled them, they are still on his machine. He doesn't need to
reinstall them; all he has to do is type -quest on-.
Some of the Quest programs may no longer work because of long variable names
and labels, though I believe that most will.
-- Vince
[email protected]
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