As the FAQ advises,
"The current version of Stata is 9. Please specify if you are using
an earlier version; otherwise, the answer to your question is likely
to refer to commands or features unavailable to you."
Otherwise put, my comment is based on the current version, as is
standard procedure.
Nick
[email protected]
Christopher W. Ryan
Actually, I came upon it by
-search multiple-comparisons-
in Stata 8.2
I'll take a look at _mtest
Nick Cox wrote:
> This command was published in the STB in 1994. The help
> file contains a typo: the closing "]" was omitted by
> accident. The "[ ]" indicate genuinely optional options and
> are not to be typed literally.
>
> This contribution only appears if you type -search, historical-
> but then without comment. That usually means that the contribution
> may be rendered awkward or impossible to use given subsequent
> changes in Stata, so deeper problems may yet lurk. In fact one
> of your error messages below indicates one such.
>
> On looking at the file I see no -version- statement. Inserting
> a line
>
> version 2.1
>
> below the "program define" is one possible remedy, but I've not
> tried it and make no promises.
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
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