StataCorp oversight, I guess.
Otherwise put, you are the first person to tickle this bug.
(I just wrote the FAQ. This is not an official answer.)
Nick
[email protected]
Alex Ogan
Thanks for posting this -- sorry I didn't search more before posting the
question. I read the explanation, and read _gmedian.ado to see that it
does indeed include -version 3.0-.
Here's my next question -- sorry if this is a FAQ too:
Why hasn't this been fixed? Have I done something wrong and failed to
receive some official updates? -update ado- reports that my ado files
are already up to date... Is there some other command that has replaced
-egen, median()- which I should be using instead? I can't understand
why this problem would still exist, five years after the FAQ you
referenced was posted.
n j cox
Alex Ogan reported a problem with -egen, median()-
and -if-. Austin Nichols posted code that works
around the problem.
The problem is explained in an FAQ
Why does a program defined by an ado-file sometimes not work when given
a string comparison?
http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/lang/define.html
although this particular manifestation has been
lurking in official Stata code ever since Stata 6.
Nick
[email protected]
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