st: New version of -somersd- for SSC

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new version of the -somersd- package is now
available for download from SSC. In Stata, use the -ssc- command to do
this.

The -somersd- package will be described as below on my website when my
website is next updated. In the new version, I have updated the online
help, and the manual -somersd.pdf-, to document a previously
unpublicized ability to recognize synonyms, and unambiguous
abbreviations, for the transformation names specified by the -transf()-
option of the -somersd- command. I would like to thank Nick Cox for
suggesting this improvement.

Roger


Roger Newson
Lecturer in Medical Statistics
POSTAL ADDRESS:
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London
St Mary's Campus
Norfolk Place
London W2 1PG
STREET ADDRESS:
Respiratory Epidemiology and Public Health Group
National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London
47 Praed Street
Paddington
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TELEPHONE: (+44) 020 7594 0939
FAX: (+44) 020 7594 0942
EMAIL: r.newson@imperial.ac.uk
WEBSITE: http://www.kcl-phs.org.uk/rogernewson/
Opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the institution.


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package somersd from c:\website\rogernewson\stata9
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TITLE
      somersd: Kendall's tau-a, Somers' D and median differences

DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR(S)
      The somersd package contains the programs somersd and cendif,
which
      calculate confidence intervals for the parameters behind rank or
      "nonparametric" statistics. The program somersd calculates
confidence
      intervals for Kendall's tau-a or Somers' D, and stores the
estimates and
      their covariance matrix as estimation results. It can be used on
      left-censored, right-censored, clustered and/or stratified data.
      The program cendif calculates confidence intervals for
Hodges-Lehmann
      median differences (or other percentile differences) between two
groups.
      Kendall's tau-a is a difference between probabilities of
concordance and
      discordance, and measures rank order correlation. Somers' D is a
parameter
      equal to zero under the null hypothesis tested by the
Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney
      or Breslow-Gehan ranksum test, and can be used to calculate
confidence
      intervals for Harrell's c index, for areas under receiver
operating
      characteristic (ROC) curves, for differences between Harrell's c
indices
      or ROC areas, or for Gini coefficients. The Hodges-Lehmann median
difference
      can be defined in terms of Somers' D, and is also zero under the
null
      hypothesis tested by the ranksum test. Full documentation of the
two programs
      (including methods and formulas) can be found in the ancillary
files
      somersd.pdf and cendif.pdf, which can be viewed using the Adobe
Acrobat
      Reader.
      
      Author: Roger Newson
      Distribution-date: 26 February 2006
      Stata-version: 9
      

INSTALLATION FILES                                  (click here to
install)
      somersd.ado
      lsomersd.mlib
      somersd.hlp
      somers_p.ado
      cendif.ado
      cendif.hlp
      somersd_mata.hlp
      mf_blncdtree.hlp
      mf_u2jackpseud.hlp
      _blncdtree.mata
      blncdtree.mata
      tidot.mata
      tidottree.mata
      _u2jackpseud.mata
      _v2jackpseud.mata
      tidotforsomersd.mata
      estvar1forsomersd.mata

ANCILLARY FILES                                     (click here to get)
      somersd.pdf
      cendif.pdf
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