Re: st: Slow STATA

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@nd.edu>]

At 08:52 AM 10/12/2004 -0500, Richard Gates wrote:
> In response to Joseph's question:
>
> > I have had trouble running a series of simple exact tests.  Whenever my
> > tables go beyond 2x2 to tables such as the example below, STATA grinds to a
> > virtual halt.  I waited a half hour before pressing the "break" button.
> >
> This problem will run instanteously if we input a 2 x 7 table
From 2 hours 40 minutes using the old algorithm to slightly over 0 seconds 
with the new one...This is an amazing level of improvement.  Nice work!


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