Re: st: BTSCS ad-on for xtprobit?

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

At 12:34 PM 2/1/2007, Jason Yackee wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> a statistician friend of mine was describing certain well-known problems
> with the -xtprobit- and -xtlogit- routines when panels are long.
> Stata's -xt- manual discusses this as well, having to do with the
> quadrature method used to implement the random-effects estimator.  My
> friend provided a "fix" using lowess techniques, and also mentioned a
> different user-written ad-on with the file name "btscs" that he said was
> difficult to find.   Indeed, -findit- finds no trace.  Does anyone have
> access to the btscs program?
This question has come up before:

http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2006-08/msg00166.html

I suggest you email the person who claims he got a copy of it.

As a sidelight, I wish people would either put their stuff on SSC, or 
else register their sites so -findit- could locate their routines.


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