Re: st: RE: RE: Stata formulas

["Rodrigo A. Alfaro" <raalfaroa@gmail.com>]

Nice link... you could download EViews manual as well:
http://www.eviews.com/eviews5/eviews5/EViews51Manuals.zip
R.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Williams" <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:01 PM
Subject: RE: st: RE: RE: Stata formulas



> At 06:28 PM 2/28/2007, Nick Cox wrote:
> > Your last comment has already been answered several times
> > over in this thread. Like it or not, StataCorp has invested
> > a vast amount in its documentation for sale and wholesale
> > duplication of the manuals for open access just is not
> > likely. We can all agree that it would be useful if it
> > were there, but it is not going to happen. That's my
> > guess, at least.
> A few sample chapters do happen to be online (clogit, mfx, regress, 
> regress postestimation), just in case those luckily are the ones you want 
> (or if you want a sampling to see if it is worth buying the whole thing):
>
> http://www.stata.com/bookstore/refset.html
>
>
> > Besides, your argument is contradictory. If StataCorp
> > is using the same formulas as everybody else, then they
> > can be found in the open literature.
> Quite true.  It isn't like Stata has a patent on the formula for logistic 
> regression.  Of course hunting all the formulas down could be 
> time-consuming.
>
> For what it is worth, the great Satan does put its algorithms online. 
> When prompted for username and password, enter "guest" in both places.
>
> http://support.spss.com/Tech/Products/SPSS/Documentation/Statistics/algorithms/index.html
>
> I imagine Stata is often using the same or equivalent formulas.  The SPSS 
> stuff may be free, but for me at least, the Stata documentation is 
> infinitely clearer.
>
>
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