On the last point, I have the data.
To end 2006, there were 32 Stata users' meetings.
StataCorp (or its predecessors Stata Corp or CRC)
were represented at 31 of them. The only exception
was a one-day meeting in London on 5 July 1996.
Nick
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SamL
> Yeah. I was just assuming you were right that the R-community is not
> paying attention to stata, and I was suggesting that did not
> speak to the
> existence of "competition." I presume stata is doing
> something to make
> itself aware of what its customers and potential customers
> might want/need
> like, maybe, periodically monitoring statalist, showing up at
> users groups
> meetings and such.
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