You have Stata 7, it seems.
It is difficult for me to understand why you
think that any changes to Stata 8 would affect
your files. You would need to get hold of
the files yourself and put them on top
of the Stata 7 files. Presumably you
would remember doing that. You cannot,
through a direct -update-, get hold of Stata
files for a later release than that you have
installed. There are lots of good reasons for
that.
As said, Stata 7 was frozen the instant
that Stata 8 was released. I cannot
comment in detail on your assertion
that you are getting different results.
It is possible that -- within Stata 7 --
you were using an earlier -xtabond-
and then -update-d so that -xtabond-
of 24 Sept 2002 was the one you
were using, or there was some change
to other files you were using.
To repeat, I can't see that any changes
to Stata 8 have implications for you
as a Stata 7 user.
Nick
[email protected]
TEWODAJ MOGUES
> My objective was only to understand whether the differences in my
> results were Stata upgrade related or data-changes related. I am not
> sure why Stata 7 is now giving different results than it used to. I
> don't know, maybe when xtabond was fixed in Stata8, updating xtabond
> in Stata 7 also results in replacing xtabond with its corrected
> version. I may well have done this updating of Stata 7 in the
> past. In
> any case, I have returned the official ado files to their original
> folders, so no harm done. Thanks for the cloning idea.
>
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